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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We are trying to take it step by step because it's very, very difficult technology we are trying.
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The taxpayers paid for this. Right now they're getting no economic value from it. Zero.
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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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The tone, tenor and substance of what you had to say is very different from what we heard before.
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We intend to take down that terror network.
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If, as it appears, it was an act of terrorists, then we will do everything in our power to track them down and hold them accountable.
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Politically, economically and technologically, the world is changing at an unprecedented and sometimes alarming pace.
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While we are not and cannot become the world's policeman, neither can we become a prisoner of world events, isolated and tucked safely away in a continental cocoon.
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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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We felt it was in our best interests to move out. We'll play this out in court.
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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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This memorial is more than a remembrance, it's also a reminder that women in the military's service to America is not new and should never again be allowed to go unrecognized. We don't allow women in service as a social favor; we do not train women in the name of a noble social experiment. Today, women in uniform are part of the national security of the United States, and this isn't a modern nicety, it's a military necessity. . . . Our military wouldn't be what it is today without women.
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A plague more monstrous than anything we have experienced could spread with all the irrevocability of ink on tissue paper. Ancient scourges would quickly become modern nightmares.
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We can never descend to the level of those who killed us. We will (respond) with precision. We will rip them up and bring them to justice . . . The real question for us is, "Do we have the will -- the will to stay the course?