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"I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism."
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"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."
"Oppression is opposition."
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"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."
"The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed."
"Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home."
"If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk."
"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."
"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."
"Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential."
"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime."
"I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops."
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