Stephen Hadley Quotations | Page 2

The doctrine of preemption which we have talked about reflects simply the fact that we can not stand by while threats accumulate and grow.

a mix of carrots and sticks, and who should the carrots come from and what should they be.

Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing.

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence.

There's Pam watching anxiously. She doesn't look anxious though.

No one from the intelligence community, anyplace else ever came in and said, ‘What if Saddam is doing all this deception because he actually got rid of the WMD and he doesn't want the Iranians to know?' Now somebody should have asked that question. I should have asked that question. Nobody did. Turns out that was the most important question in terms of the intelligence failure that never got asked.

Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.

Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.

I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.