#intelligence

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#economic #efforts #espionage #found #had

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#american #american policy #come #deal #doing

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#economic #efforts #espionage #had #intelligence

The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything. ↗

— Prince Andrew

#bar #better #does #everything #hell

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#contained #hearings #house #i #intelligence

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. ↗

— George Bancroft

#brute force #civilization #common #common mind #degree

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#civilization #exemption #form #government #highly

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. ↗

— Josh Billings

#anything #common #common sense #elegant #genius

I don't like religion; I don't like anything or anybody which tells me what to do! We must take orders only from our own intelligence! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#intelligence

Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining silent for billions of years somewhere outside our universe! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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