Despite our very recent appearance on the planet humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front again are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious as well as imminent that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.

In the fight against terrorism national agencies keep full control over their police forces security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

Here again as I conceive gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

In order to be successful against each of these threats we have to have a presence overseas work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community but also with the intelligence community.

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

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

When a true genius appears you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

A smart man makes a mistake learns from it and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Every view and every object I studied attentively by viewing them again and again on every side for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

Put off your imagination as you put off your overcoat when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again as you put on your overcoat when you leave.

It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

To me sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.