#powerful

As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise. ↗

— George Tenet

#analytical #been #capabilities #cold #cold war

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law. ↗

— Andrew Thomas

#before #community #corrupt #god #i

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature. ↗

— Ben Edwards

#argued #both #care #film #films

The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion to molest them by secret inroad, and often by open assault. ↗

— John P. Kennedy

#eager #every #hostility #indians #molest

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities. ↗

— Ralph Marston

#complicated #most #most powerful #opportunities #powerful

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. ↗

— Alan Turing

#american #brain #company #developing #i

Love is the greatest power of all, and it can never be corrupted. ↗

— Gillian Shields

#powerful #love

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#away #before #believed #berlin #berlin wall

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power. ↗

— Erika Slezak

#because #earth #hop #just #know