A Bush-driven government will look at these cases with great skepticism before authorizing any sort of suits.

Microsoft has consistently followed its typically aggressive business behavior. Microsoft firmly believes there aren't anti-competitive effects [to their business practices], notwithstanding its hardball tactics.

The game is just too far along for a settlement to re-emerge as a viable alternative.

It has to do with our suspicion and skepticism of government power being able to take private property.

Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence communities tend to value secrecy for its own sake. It's a way of silencing critics and evading responsibility - for incompetence or worse. It generates an elite, a band of brothers in whom the national confidence can be reliably vested, unlike the great mass of citizenry on whose behalf the information is presumably made secret in the first place. With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and with science.

I trust the EU will overcome the skepticism which now exists within the Union (towards Turkey), ... We expect that those concerns of ours will be handled to mutual satisfaction.