Stephen Hadley
Stephen Hadley
Stephen John Hadleywas the 21st U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, serving under President George W. Bush...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth13 February 1947
CountryUnited States of America
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Seventy-seven senators from both sides of the aisle, the previous administration and foreign governments all believed, based on the same intelligence, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and posed an enormous threat,
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What happens if on September 7th of 2001, we had gotten one of the hijackers and based on information associated with that arrest, believed that within four days, there's going to be a devastating attack on the United States?
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Our statements about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein were based on the aggregation of intelligence from a number of sources and represented the collective view of the intelligence community,
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The purpose of the summit is for the democratically elected leaders to get together and reaffirm the fact that there is really a shared vision for the hemisphere that is based on democracy and free markets and free trade.
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What the Congress and the companies are able to work out, we'll support and cooperate with so long as it does not involve a summary decision by the Congress that blocks this transaction.
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We went from a summit that was supposed to bury the FTAA to a summit in which 34 countries actually talk in terms of enhanced trade. I would say that is some real progress.
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We went from a summit that was supposed to bury FTAA, to a summit in which all 34 countries actually talked in terms of an FTAA. Recognizing there are challenges, that is some real progress.
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We think, in the end of the day, China also faces a strategic choice: whether they are going to follow up the increasing amounts of economic freedom they're affording to the people and whether they are willing to respond to the inevitable demands of their people for political freedom as well.
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The stop in the Slovak Republic is a nice opportunity for the president to remind Europe and the rest of the world of the progress we've made together in that part of the world,
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The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence . . . is not in their interests.
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an issue of our intelligence, and obviously we need to do a better job of our intelligence.
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Argentina is the host. Argentina has taken a strong hand in forming the agenda, and we will obviously want to support that. And the president will make a contribution on those topics.
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People recognize that it would be problematic for Chavez to be in the nuclear business.
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We do not rule out the use of force before attacks occur, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy's attack.