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The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.

I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.

I am inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

If you look at the publishers I have worked with, generally, they are a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I have worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It is great. The problem is there is a million dots at the time.

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.

Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.