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 in China and vice versa, the more people find that there is this broad middle path.… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
I find when you talk with the Chinese on most subjects, they are very practical. — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the same 'no… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
Before 9/11 there were weak procedures, willingness, and mechanisms for communicating among agencies for foreign intelligence and the FBI with its focus on law… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela -… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
Southeast Asia is an area in which there is a form of Islam which is both devout and progressive, and therefore to be supported.… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
In addition to anti-American terrorists with global reach, our adversaries include organizations - some nation states, some private and some criminal - that proliferate… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
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… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again. — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
