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"I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to."
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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."
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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."
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"Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole."
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"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."
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"The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations."
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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."
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"British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow."
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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."
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"A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages."
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"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
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"TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue."
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"Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal."
Government
"I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both."
Technology
"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."
Information
"I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor."
Present
"You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives."
Failure
"We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas."
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"Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people."
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"The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored."
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"I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to."
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