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"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime."
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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."
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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."
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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
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"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."
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"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."
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"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."
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"There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war, there is only just and unjust war."
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"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."
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"The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war."
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"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"
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"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime."
War
"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."
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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."
People
"I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops."
Technology
"You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services."
Intelligence
"If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk."
People
"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."
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."
Politics
"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."
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"Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny."
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