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"If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk."
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"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime."

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

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"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."

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"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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