"The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions."

-- Leonard Boswell

#Decision Quotes #Directors Quotes #Clout Quotes

“Being on stage a lot is quite physical.”
“When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.”
“To Jane Jacobâ€™s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.”
“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.”
“Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.”

Source : VANNEVAR BUSH (1949). “MODERN ARMS AND FREE MEN: A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PRESERVING DEMOCRACY”
“The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.”
“Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit oneâ€™s emotions.”
“Learn to leave things. If you don't have an interest in something, you don't need even to transcend it!”

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