William Cohen
William Cohen
William Sebastian Cohenis an American politician and author from the U.S. state of Maine. A Republican, Cohen served as both a member of the United States House of Representatives and Senate, and as Secretary of Defenseunder Democratic President Bill Clinton...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 August 1940
CityBangor, ME
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Technology is miniaturizing the globe, binding our destiny ever more closely to that of our allies and economic partners around the world.
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That hole in the side of the Cole was actually a hole in the chest and the heart of the American people.
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The taxpayers paid for this. Right now they're getting no economic value from it. Zero.
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The more reliant we become upon computers and information systems, the more vulnerable we become to cyber-terrorists who will conceive unlimited ways to cripple our infrastructure, our power grids, our banking systems, our financial markets, our space based communications systems.
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Politically, economically and technologically, the world is changing at an unprecedented and sometimes alarming pace.
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We intend to take down that terror network.
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The opportunities and threats existing in any situation always exceed the resources needed to exploit the opportunities or avoid the threats. Thus, strategy is essentially a problem of allocating resources. If strategy is to be successful, it must allocate superior resources against a decisive opportunity.
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We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.
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For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.
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My research debunks the myth that many people seem to have . . . that you become a leader by fighting your way to the top. Rather, you become a leader by helping others to the top. Helping your employees is as important, and many times more so, than trying to get the most work out of them.
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Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves
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We felt it was in our best interests to move out. We'll play this out in court.