Heres the teaching point, if youre teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesnt absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. – George Tenet
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Dianas loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect. – Queen Elizabeth II
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. – John Maynard Keynes
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isnt, than live my life as if there isnt and die to find out there is. – Albert Camus