"I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker."
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein on Intelligence"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
Albert Einstein on Intelligence"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
Albert Einstein on Intelligence"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."
Albert Einstein on Intelligence"We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
Albert Einstein on Intelligence"We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations."
"The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish."
"Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations."