"You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well."

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Source: Bill Gates And President Bill Clinton On The Nsa, Safe Sex, And American Exceptionalism. Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

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Bill Gates

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Bill Gates is a technology entrepreneur and philanthropist known for co-founding Microsoft and his significant contributions to global health and education.

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