"Well, I think there’s a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence."
― John Major
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Intelligence
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- "Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein."
- "It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family – and not shuffling it off on other people and the state."
- "‘Government gets things right’ does not encourage sales. ‘Government makes another blunder’ does encourage sales, so there’s a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism."
More In Intelligence
- "Any good music must be an innovation."― Les Baxter
- "I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people."― Alexander Mackenzie
- "Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."― Stephen Leacock