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21 quotes by Dennis C. Blair

Dennis Cutler Blair (born February 4, 1947) is the former United States Director of National Intelligence and is a retired United States Navy admiral who was the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific region. Blair was a career officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the White House during the presidencies of both President Jimmy Carter and President Ronald Reagan. Blair retired from the Navy in 2002 as an Admiral. In 2009, Blair was selected as...
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The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all... →

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I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars... →

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Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is... →

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The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.

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You can't always get someone where you want to with just sticks. There have to be some carrots, there have to be some other shaping things.

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Before 9/11 there were weak procedures, willingness, and mechanisms for communicating among agencies for foreign intelligence and the FBI with its... →

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All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the... →

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I know it sounds Pollyannish and 'Kumbaya'-like, but I find that the more that you expose Americans to the diversity of what's going on... →

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Southeast Asia is an area in which there is a form of Islam which is both devout and progressive, and therefore to be supported. It's an area in... →

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The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and... →

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There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the same 'no price too steep... →

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As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see China as an inevitable enemy... →

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As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.

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