"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence." ― William F. Buckley, Jr. Topic(s): Intelligence More From William F. Buckley, Jr. "A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’" "The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry." "I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said." More In Intelligence "We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future."― Stephen Cambone "They say military have the so-called ‘secret intelligence’ – this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I’ve never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars."― Ozzy Osbourne "The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing."― Paul Harris