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"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime."
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"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."
"Nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds."
"You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes."Do they ever make more sense?"No."
"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage."
"Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition."
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"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."
"The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed."
"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."
"I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism."
"The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more."
"If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk."
"You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services."
"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."
"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."
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