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"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."
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"As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy."

"Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate."

"An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product."

"If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost."

"When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides."

"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news."

"I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk."

"It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved."

"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."

"I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides."
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"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."

"You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services."

"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."

"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."

"I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops."

"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."

"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."
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