Dennis C. Blair famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?
-- Dennis C. Blair

#Religious #Kings #Nice
All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the public trust. The American people are uncomfortable with government activities that do not take place in the open, subject to public scrutiny and review.
-- Dennis C. Blair

#Trust #Senior #Government
High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.
-- Dennis C. Blair

#Country #Organization #Understanding
The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means.
-- Dennis C. Blair

#Mean #Knowing #Technique
I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.
-- Dennis C. Blair

#War #Thinking #Chinese
Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis.
-- Dennis C. Blair

#Independent #Important #Analysis
My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.
-- Dennis C. Blair

#White #House #Integrating

Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.
Iâ€™d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because itâ€™s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

Dennis C. Blair famous quotes

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