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  • Louis Freeh on hope

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    “And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.” -Louis Freeh

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  • Bill Nelson on hope

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    “The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.” -Bill Nelson

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  • Brad Delson on hope

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    “I’m inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.” -Brad Delson

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  • Markus Wolf on hope

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    “I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services adopting also means like pressure, money, sex – but that did not characterize my service.” -Markus Wolf

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  • Jeff Sessions on hope

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    “I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.” -Jeff Sessions

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  • Cofer Black on hope

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    “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.” -Cofer Black

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  • Peter Sotos on hope

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    “If you look at the publishers I’ve worked with, generally, they’re a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I’ve worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.” -Peter Sotos

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  • Peter Schuyler on hope

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    “Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?” -Peter Schuyler

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  • Godfried Danneels on hope

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    “Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.” -Godfried Danneels

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  • Chauncey Wright on hope

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    “The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.” -Chauncey Wright

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  • Linda Hunt on hope

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    “I can’t be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.” -Linda Hunt

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  • Jane Harman on hope

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    “We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.” -Jane Harman

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  • John Pistole on hope

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    “The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.” -John Pistole

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  • Gloria Naylor on hope

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    “The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.” -Gloria Naylor

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  • John George Nicolay on hope

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    “Lincoln’s stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition – in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.” -John George Nicolay

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  • George Tenet on hope

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    “When I came to the CIA in the mid-’90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central…

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  • Tony Goldwyn on hope

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    “I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.” -Tony Goldwyn

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  • Carole King on hope

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    “I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She’s taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.” -Carole King

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  • Tyrese Gibson on hope

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    “The beautiful thing about my intelligence is that it doesn’t really come in one specific department. So even if something hasn’t happened to me, I have information on how to get you through whatever you may be going through.” -Tyrese Gibson

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  • Jerry Cantrell on hope

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    “Rehearsals and this band are two words that don’t really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.” -Jerry Cantrell

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  • Alexander Downer on hope

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    “Well, it’s a – I don’t want to disappoint you, but it’s a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.” -Alexander Downer

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  • Lawrence Hargrave on hope

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    “It becomes a giant’s task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.” -Lawrence Hargrave

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  • Oliver Joseph Lodge on hope

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    “In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator’s separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.” -Oliver Joseph Lodge

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  • Charles Williams on hope

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    “Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.” -Charles Williams

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  • Jeff Hawkins on hope

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    “Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.” -Jeff Hawkins

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