Defence Of Intelligence Quotes & Sayings

There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called 'state security' in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stalinist past), police and communications are all die-hard Zuma loyalists. Whatever their line functions, they will also play the role they have played so ably to date: keeping Zuma out of court - and making sure the state serves Zuma as it once did Mbeki. — Mark Gevisser

The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving ... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them. — R. Kent Hughes

We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up. — Michael Nutter

Abraham Lincoln, said in 1838, when he and the United States were both very young, Reason - cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason - must furnish all materials for our future support and defence. Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence for the Constitution and laws. — Al Gore

It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements. — Curtis Martin

T is as cheap sitting as standing. — Jonathan Swift

I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things. — John Le Carre

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first. — Nathan Fielder

We have no merit to offer God except for that earned for us by our Savior. — R.C. Sproul

I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous. — Bryan Greenberg

I wish I was a spoon, " he murmured.

~Sed — Olivia Cunning

The clerk is looking at me. His expression hasn't changed. What I want to do is punch a hole in the front of the desk, reach through, grab his balls, and make him sing The Mickey Mouse Club song. But these days, I'm working on the theory that killing everyone I don't like might be counterproductive. I'm learning to use my indoor voice like a big boy, so I smile back at the clerk. — Richard Kadrey