John Hamre Quotations

We're not anxious that there are going to be accidental occurrences as a result of Y2K for nuclear command control systems. Having said that, we want to have the least amount of uncertainty in everyone's minds as to the implications.

What you do with a bombing campaign is bring a whole country rallying around its radical leaders.

Recent events where criminals were able to become customers have led us to take this strong action in order to regain the trust of consumers that their information is being used only for their benefit, or the benefit of society at large.

We have checked with all of our operation commanders, and operations are absolutely normal around the world.

It was an act of reassurance between us and Russia.

The impression you get is of an organization that had too little structure on the ground over there, that it had conflicting guidance from the United States. It had a very difficult environment and pressures by that environment to quickly move things.