"The information that the intelligence people used..." - Quote by Colin Powell

“You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.”

“Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is "no." That's not America.”

“Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.”

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”

“No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has any one ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is folly. They dislike ideas, for ideas make them uncomfortable.”

“Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not controlled by any single authority.”

“What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?”

“Our intelligence communities spend a lot of time and effort gathering a lot of strands and a lot of data [on Russian hacking]. There are times where they're very cautious and they say, "We think this is what happened, but we're not certain."”