“I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would ...” — John Poindexter Quote

I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.

TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

I feel strongly from my experience of serving as foreign minister for four years and eight months that there is nothing stronger than diplomacy and security with the understanding and support of the people.

People online will tell you what they really think - there's no diplomacy. They're honest; it's good to have the feedback immediately.

Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.