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The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.
George Tenet
Truth
Faith
You
Culture
People
Intelligence
Our
Out
Tell
Only
Never
Because
Up
Officers
Break
Us
Stand
Stand Up
Who
Ever
Drag
We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.
George Tenet
Control
Complicity
Direction
Could
Never
Period
Operational
Verify
Iraqi
America
Authority
Any
Against
Act
Al
Al-Qaeda
As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.
George Tenet
Service
War
Intelligence
Thought
Nation
Past
Cold
Other
Cold War
Analytical
Our
Seven
Collection
Would
Powerful
Longer
Over
Been
Years
After
Expertise
Capabilities
Depth
Many
Satellite
Technical
Rebuilding
Need
To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.
George Tenet
You
Patience
Intelligence
Care
Patient
Difficult
Topic
Thoughtful
Rarely
Takes
Days
Like
Understand
Hear
Iraq
Discussion
Unfortunately
Careful
I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states.
Gerald Walpin
President
President Obama
Statement
Say
States
Obama
Would
Never
Because
Continue
His
Capacity
Serve
It appears to suggest that I was removed because I was disabled - based on one occasion out of hundreds.
Gerald Walpin
Hundreds
Out
Disabled
Occasion
Because
Appears
Based
Suggest
There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.
Gina McCarthy
Health
Threshold
Fine
Risk
Particle
Reduced
Reductions
Achieved
Pollution
Which
Exposure
Level
Below
The EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, along with a host of other onerous regulations, are unnecessarily driving out conventional fuels as part of America's energy mix. The consequences are higher energy prices for families and a contraction of our nation's economic growth.
Gina McCarthy
Nation
Energy
Consequences
Other
Our
Unnecessarily
Out
Economic
Higher
Economic Growth
Prices
Host
Driving
Part
Along
Mix
Contraction
Families
America
Greenhouse
Conventional
EPA
Energy Prices
Fuels
Regulations
Growth
Gas
Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how energy costs impact their lives and make decisions accordingly.
Gina McCarthy
Money
Energy
Impact
Costs
Emissions
Argue
Consumers
Make
Understand
How
Reduce
Accordingly
Efficiency
Families
Decisions
Energy Costs
Use
Standards
Businesses
Lives
Save
Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans' health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.
Gina McCarthy
Health
Change
Our
Significant
Security
Threat
Through
Environment
Economy
Global
Climate
Climate Change
Contribution
American
Greenhouse
Depends
Pollution
Which
Gas
Presents
I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.
Gina McCarthy
Love
Know
Blood
Irish
Controversy
Cannot
Away
Shy
Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that's the job I've been given and the job I'm going to embrace.
Gina McCarthy
Be Happy
Happy
People
Decision
Unhappy
Job
Embrace
Given
Instance
Make
Been
Going
Controversy
Next
Even
I definitely challenge people. But hopefully, I am working harder than anybody else, and so people won't resent the fact that I want them to work hard, as well.
Gina McCarthy
Work
People
Work Hard
Challenge
Else
Definitely
Hopefully
Fact
Well
Am
Than
Anybody
Anybody Else
Want
Them
Working
Hard
Resent
Harder
Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital interests are at stake, establishing an objective other than winning is not only counterproductive, but also irresponsible and wasteful. In some circumstances, it is also unethical.
H. R. McMaster
Life
Death
War
Competition
National
Other
Circumstances
Security
Life And Death
Vital
Some
Objective
Only
Winning
Counterproductive
Also
Involving
Because
Than
National Security
Unethical
Irresponsible
Establishing
Which
Stake
Interests
Wasteful
We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply those technologies to what we're trying to achieve. This can mask some very important continuities in the nature of war and their implications for our responsibilities as officers.
H. R. McMaster
War
Best
Nature
Achieve
Mask
Important
Think
Our
Those
Responsibilities
Some
About
Fail
Implications
How
Enamored
Very
Officers
Trying
Technological
Technologies
Apply
Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.
H. R. McMaster
Death
Communication
Destruction
Result
Perspective
Particularly
End
Bombing
Bombs
Receiving
You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
H. R. McMaster
War
You
Army
World
Remember
Listening
First
Thinking
Destroyed
Critical
Solution
General
Had
He
Self-Critical
Until
French
First World
First World War
Said
Being
Then
Keep
World War
It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilities and vulnerabilities and embarked on an ambitious and largely successful modernization effort.
H. R. McMaster
Army
Our
Embarked
Russia
Studied
Clear
Vulnerabilities
Iraq
Ambitious
Effort
Afghanistan
While
Capabilities
Modernization
Successful
Engaged
Largely
In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
H. R. McMaster
Political
Goals
Achieve
Power
Military
Thinking
Defense
Others
Must
About
Rather
Driven
Leading
Ideas
Instrument
Operations
Years
Iraq
Up
Than
Afghanistan
Just
Ends
Sustain
Regarded
Just One
Themselves
Successful
Wars
Military Operations
Coordinated
People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.
H. R. McMaster
Today
Fight
People
Fear
Honor
Identified
Years
Years Ago
Historian
Greek
Same
Interest
Reasons
Fundamental
Nearly
It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What percentage of the populations in countries engaged in the 14-year effort in Afghanistan could even name the three main Taliban groups with whom their soldiers have been engaged?
H. R. McMaster
Three
Deficient
Soldiers
Moral
Components
Percentage
Could
Main
Countries
Name
Taliban
Been
Western
Effort
May
Afghanistan
Engaged
Inherent
Strategies
Even
Groups
Whom
Recent
The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons and daughters to fight in recent wars may derive from a failure to communicate effectively what is at stake in those wars and explain why the efforts are worthy of the risks, resources, and sacrifices necessary to sustain the strategy.
H. R. McMaster
Failure
Risks
Fight
Communicate
Strategy
Resources
Those
Worthy
Percentage
Only
Small
Daughters
Sacrifices
Sons
Effectively
Efforts
May
Sustain
Explain
Stake
Sent
Derive
Who
Professed
Wars
Why
Among
Necessary
Recent
Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
H. R. McMaster
Time
You
Enemy
Treat
Every
Every Time
Iraqi
Working
It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
H. R. McMaster
Crazy
Quilt
Degree
Astounding
Religious
Iraq
Which
Communities
Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
H. R. McMaster
You
Army
People
Criticism
Some People
Military
Think
Everything
Hey
Frank
Intolerable
Some
About
Case
Environment
Misunderstanding
Opposite
Want
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
H. R. McMaster
Wisdom
War
Communism
Result
Made
Inevitable
Own
Congress
Lyndon
Members
Possible
Administration
Lies
Only
Imperative
Johnson
Through
Contain
Highly
American
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Inaccurate
Public
Far
Much
Vietnam
American Public
Associated
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