Quotes About Intelligence Collection

#1. Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Daniel Hannan

#3. You decent?"
I pulled the towel up a little higher. "Yes, if my wrinkled toes don't offend."
Marco's swarthy head popped around the doorjamb. "Naw, they're cute.

Karen Chance

#4. 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

#5. My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.

Oscar Isaac

#6. If you turn your life over to the Lord he can do so much more with it than we can.

Ezra Taft Benson

#7. Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

Naguib Mahfouz

#8. I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

Kathleen Hanna

#9. In 1996, the possibility of going to New York came up. From then on, I started searching for opportunities on the international market and the plane became my home.

Gisele Bundchen

#10. U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

Barton Gellman

#11. Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

Saxby Chambliss

#12. The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good spy agency, but it's good at running covert action.

David Ignatius

#13. I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

Anita Diamant

#14. AH, MY THREE FAVORITE WORDS: Carter, shut up. Zia

Rick Riordan

#15. As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities.

Jane Harman

#16. The flaws you see in others are actually a reflection of yourself.

Eve Branson