Famous Quotes

"When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots."

Robert M. Gates on Intelligence

More quotes about Intelligence

• "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

More quotes by Robert M. Gates

• "If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience."

• "I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community."

• "Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive."

• "There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility."

• "Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership."