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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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"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."
"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."
"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."
"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."
"Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview."
"Despite the administration's long public information campaign, for many months polls have consistently indicated only 37 percent of those eligible for Medicare say they only partially understand the program."
"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information."
"And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals."
"The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting."
"Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate."
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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."
"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."
"I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor."
"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."
"TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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