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" State oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Iran, and Mexico have often been intelligence targets for the United States. "
David E. Sanger
Oil
Mexico
Intelligence
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" Unfettered markets eventually get out of whack. "
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Eventually
Markets
Out
" Bloggers are not reporters. "
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Bloggers
Reporters
" If you go in to vote, and you are no longer confident that the vote that you put in is the way it's going to get recorded because you don't know if the Russians or someone else have gotten into the voting system, that undercuts your trust in the democratic process. "
David E. Sanger
Vote
Trust
You
" We had a great chance in the mid-2000s to reach an accord with the Chinese on both energy and environmental issues. That deal would have essentially been that the U.S. could provide the equipment and expertise, and the Chinese would help close the trade gap. It was a huge opportunity that we failed to exploit. "
David E. Sanger
Great
Help
Opportunity
" Because our government has been so incompetent at protecting its highly sophisticated cyberweapons, those weapons have been stolen out of the electronic vaults of the National Security Agency and the C.I.A. and shot right back at us. "
David E. Sanger
Us
Security
Right
" Cyberattacks have long been hard to stop because determining where they come from takes time - and sometimes the mystery is never solved. "
David E. Sanger
Time
Stop
Sometimes
" There are a lot of columnists who get out and opine. "
David E. Sanger
Out
Who
Lot
" The United States lost a bit of the moral high ground when it comes to warning the world of the danger of cyberattacks. "
David E. Sanger
Warning
World
Danger
" It's no surprise that hackers working for North Korea, Iran's mullahs, Vladimir V. Putin in Russia, and the People's Liberation Army of China have all learned that the great advantage of cyberweapons is that they are the opposite of a nuke: hard to detect, easy to deny, and increasingly finely targeted. "
David E. Sanger
Great
Surprise
People
" If there's a cyberattack from China or Russia or Romania or Mexico, it may well run through a server in another country. And it may take months before you know where it really came from. "
David E. Sanger
Run
You
Russia
" In the Chinese view, the United States has designed its own system of rules about what constitutes 'legal' spying and what is illegal. "
David E. Sanger
United
View
Own
" 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 virus protection program sold by Kaspersky, a Russian firm. "
David E. Sanger
Intelligence
Secrets
Security
" There are certainly some secrets the government needs to protect, but many of the most important clues about revolutions, nuclear transfers, and new military sites can be found online, in open chat rooms and commercial satellite photos. "
David E. Sanger
Military
Government
Important
" After more than two decades of traveling with American presidents and chief diplomats - on visits to places that have included some of the world's most repressive nations - I am used to watching leaders disappear behind closed doors. "
David E. Sanger
World
Doors
American
" Although Mr. Trump will not be able to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, he can legally ignore its provisions, in keeping with his questioning of the existence of man-made climate change. "
David E. Sanger
Change
Paris
Ignore
" 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 cyber attack being able to take control of machines - that becomes a scary process. "
David E. Sanger
Scary
Attack
Control
" American officials sometimes dig into corporations because they are suspected to be witting or unwitting suppliers of technology to the North Koreans or the Iranians. "
David E. Sanger
Sometimes
Dig
American
" Never mention a web site is coming until it's already there. "
David E. Sanger
Web
Mention
Until
" When Japan was on the rise, American governors would come to inspect Toyota City and study 'just in time' manufacturing to increase efficiency; when America was at its peak in the late 1990s, the world beat a path to its venture capitalists. "
David E. Sanger
World
Time
Path
" Under the Trump administration, the traditional structure of White House oversight of American offensive and defensive cyberactivities is being dismantled. "
David E. Sanger
White
American
Structure
" Mr. Trump has been consistent in some areas. Since the late 1980s, he has nurtured a set of preoccupations, chiefly that America's allies - Japan and Saudi Arabia among them - are ripping America off. "
David E. Sanger
Off
Late
America
" There's this incredibly young, dynamic, educated population in Iran that is essentially pretty pro-American. "
David E. Sanger
Population
Young
Pretty
" In the old nuclear age, you could sit under a big screen under a mountain in Colorado, and you could see where the missiles were coming from. "
David E. Sanger
Mountain
Old
See
" In an age of reckonings, when so many bills have come due, Obama has made the case for an America that can no longer do it all. It must pick its fights. "
David E. Sanger
Bills
America
Age
" Until Japan's economy drove off a cliff, there was a running argument in Asia about whether it would be wiser to follow the 'Japan model' - with its megacorporations, jobs for life, state control of strategic industries - or the 'American model' of largely unfettered markets. "
David E. Sanger
American
Control
Wiser
" I've been covering North Korea nuclear issues since I was a young reporter in the Tokyo bureau of 'The Times' and wrote some of the first pieces about the existence of the program at Yongbyon. "
David E. Sanger
Young
North Korea
Existence
" When confronted with a direct threat to American security, Obama has shown he is willing to act unilaterally - in a targeted, get-in-and-get-out fashion, that avoids, at all costs, the kind of messy ground wars and lengthy occupations that have drained America's treasury and spirit for the past decades. "
David E. Sanger
Fashion
Past
Spirit
" The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects American national security. "
David E. Sanger
Security
Government
American
" The Trump vision, in fact, is an America unbound by a half-century of trade deals, free to pursue a nationalistic approach in which success is measured not by the quality of its alliances but the economic return on its transactions. "
David E. Sanger
Success
Vision
America
" A Trump presidency will plunge the United States into an era of unknowns that has little parallel in the nation's 240-year history. "
David E. Sanger
History
Nation
Will