If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.