I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.

The higher the general average of intelligence all things else being equal the less the disposition to be meddlesome critical and overbearing.

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Well the fact is that one imagination is critically important and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects you are much more amenable to accepting to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.

I had in mind a message although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly persuading Americans and especially Southerners of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.