41 Quotes by David E. Sanger

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.

There are a lot of columnists who get out and opine.

Bloggers are not reporters.

Never mention a web site is coming until it's already there.

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.

The United States lost a bit of the moral high ground when it comes to warning the world of the danger of cyberattacks.

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.

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.

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.