No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Intelligence must follow faith never precede it and never destroy it.
There is nothing wrong with America that faith love of freedom intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?
Women have talent and intelligence but due to social constraints and prejudices it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.
The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787 but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.