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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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"Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces."
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"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."
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"Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences."
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"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy."
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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 don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."
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"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."
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"The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations."
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"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
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"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
"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
"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
"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
"We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas."
Ideas
"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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