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Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.

As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

You can not get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He is the most easygoing, lovely man, but he is got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.

Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I do not think anyone who spends a few minutes with her is not struck by that.

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I am going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

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.

We can not gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

I do not - I never believed it is better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.

The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.