Between Quote by Dennis C. Blair

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Dennis C. Blair