• "The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime." - Michael K. Simpson Tweet
• "If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?" - Scott Adams Tweet
• "We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that." - John O. Brennan Tweet
• "I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic." - David Bowie Tweet
• "One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person." - William Feather Tweet
• "Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none." - Claude Chabrol Tweet
• "We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this." - John Mica Tweet
• "Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, we've faced a similar heightened threat level. And we've been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that's the crucial element." - David Blunkett Tweet
• "If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student." - Paul Graham Tweet
• "For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane." - Charles F. Bass Tweet