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> [What the Russians did in the election in 2016 was clearly short of war, yet it was a pretty aggressive act to go into another country's voting system.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-sanger/what-the-russians-did-in-the-election-in-2016-was-clearly-short-of/)

[David E. Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-e-sanger/)

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## More by David E. Sanger

> [The remarkable thing about the Chinese is that they've operated differently than the Russians, the Iranians, and the North Koreans. By and large, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-sanger/the-remarkable-thing-about-the-chinese-is-that-they-ve-operated/)

[David E. Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-e-sanger/)

> [A Trump presidency will plunge the United States into an era of unknowns that has little parallel in the nation's 240-year history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-sanger/a-trump-presidency-will-plunge-the-united-states-into-an-era-of/)

[David E. Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-e-sanger/)

> [In the old nuclear age, you could sit under a big screen under a mountain in Colorado, and you could see where the missiles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-sanger/in-the-old-nuclear-age-you-could-sit-under-a-big-screen-under-a/)

[David E. Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-e-sanger/)

> [Once cyber crosses into the realm of the physical, then it's a physical attack, but it starts with cyber. And the idea of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-sanger/once-cyber-crosses-into-the-realm-of-the-physical-then-it-s-a/)

[David E. Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-e-sanger/)

> [Mr. Obama is the first president to have grown up in the region - he lived in Indonesia as an elementary school student -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-sanger/mr-obama-is-the-first-president-to-have-grown-up-in-the-region-he/)

[David E. Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-e-sanger/)

> [American officials sometimes dig into corporations because they are suspected to be witting or unwitting suppliers of technology to the North Koreans or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-sanger/american-officials-sometimes-dig-into-corporations-because-they-are/)

[David E. Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-e-sanger/)

> [What the Russians did in the election in 2016 was clearly short of war, yet it was a pretty aggressive act to go into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-sanger/what-the-russians-did-in-the-election-in-2016-was-clearly-short-of/)

[David E. Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-e-sanger/)

> [When Japan was on the rise, American governors would come to inspect Toyota City and study 'just in time' manufacturing to increase efficiency; when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-sanger/when-japan-was-on-the-rise-american-governors-would-come-to-inspect/)

[David E. Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-e-sanger/)

> [“We are in a strange world,' one senior Israeli official said to me, 'where the defense minister and to a lesser degree the prime…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-sanger/we-are-in-a-strange-world-one-senior-israeli-official-said-to-me/)

[David E. Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-e-sanger/)

> [The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-sanger/the-government-does-not-deny-it-routinely-spies-to-advance-american/)

[David E. Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-e-sanger/)

> [There are certainly some secrets the government needs to protect, but many of the most important clues about revolutions, nuclear transfers, and new military…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-sanger/there-are-certainly-some-secrets-the-government-needs-to-protect-but/)

[David E. Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-e-sanger/)

> [State oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Iran, and Mexico have often been intelligence targets for the United States.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-sanger/state-oil-companies-in-saudi-arabia-africa-iran-and-mexico-have-often/)

[David E. Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-e-sanger/)

> [“China's internal divisions have made it far harder to strike the kind of deals that made it possible for the two countries to open…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-sanger/china-s-internal-divisions-have-made-it-far-harder-to-strike-the-kind/)

[David E. Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-e-sanger/)

> [We have spent so much time worrying about a 'cyber Pearl Harbor,'' the attack that takes out the power grid, that we have focused…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-sanger/we-have-spent-so-much-time-worrying-about-a-cyber-pearl-harbor-the/)

[David E. Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-e-sanger/)

> [When Russia's intelligence agencies obtained some of the National Security Agency's secrets about its own cyberweapons, it appeared to do so by manipulating a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-e-sanger/when-russia-s-intelligence-agencies-obtained-some-of-the-national/)

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