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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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"You weren't able to talk sense into him?"Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."I see. You tried the diplomatic approach."
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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."
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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."
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"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."
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"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."
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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."
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"You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer."
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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."
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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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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."
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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."
Government
"We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas."
Ideas
"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."
Diplomacy
"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
"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
"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
"TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue."
Being
"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
"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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"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."
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