George Tenet Quotes

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

George Tenet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 5, 1953

Topics

ResponsibilityIntelligenceCuriosity

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

Jim Rash

DetailFaceYouDownAudienceSee

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

Joe Elliott

ArchitectureBetterBuildingsLook

I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

John Oates

DaySchoolWaitHigh SchoolGrow

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old.

Stephanie Mills

NewOldEverything

I don't think I can do this anymore.

Simon Cowell

ThinkI CanAnymore

I was never offered enough, and that's the truth.

Rita Moreno

TruthEnoughNeverOffered

On the rare occasions when my mother perfumed herself, she was going out, and so I rarely smelled those special scents up close on her body, except during kisses goodbye.

Mary Gaitskill

MotherGoodbyeBodySpecialSheOut

The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.

Mike Ferguson

CharacterFreedomUglyValuesTide

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Michel de Montaigne

CourageTrueVirtuesGenerousMost

Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight.

Michael Ritchie

ChairToo MuchSittingCarryWeight

I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

Lorene Scafaria

TimeFeelPersonPreciousSomething

I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.

Lisa Jewell

LookHouseMoreLovelySeeBuy

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