There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions the hard questions before not afterwards and get the right intelligence.

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately you rarely hear a patient careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.

Where the stakes are the highest in the war on terror we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing planning and collaborative enforcement.