#unite

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#burden #considered #extent #had #harming

There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay. ↗

— Sandy Berger

#been #convey #countries #cross #deliberate

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#meals #people #photographs #states #taking

I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#apparent #appeared #attorney #bluntly #district

The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#alarm #bells #existential #facing #frequency

The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#attack #before #bombed #causes #charter