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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Five
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, terrorists should not be able to hide behind their passports and their citizenship, and that includes U.S. citizens, whether they are overseas or whether they are here in the United States. What we need to do is to apply the appropriate tool and the appropriate response.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any American who joins al Qaeda will know full well that they have joined an organization that is at war with the United States. Any American who did that should know well that they in fact are part of an enemy... and that the U.S. will do anything that is possible to destroy that enemy to save American lives.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes there are actions that we are forced to take, but there need to be boundaries beyond which we are going to recognize that we're not going to go because we still are Americans, and we are supposed to be representing something to people in this country and overseas.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our counterterrorism tools do not exist in a vacuum. They are stronger and more sustainable when the American people understand and support them. They are weaker and less sustainable when the American people do not.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that the system is broken, but clearly there are ways to improve the system, strengthen it, to make sure that we can put together the various bits and pieces of information in a way that allows us to stop every single terrorist out there.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
How you define a problem shapes how you address it.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020