Be on this stage with these remarkable, indeed, extraordinary women, and i want to recognize, if i may, very quickly, another woman of courage, the first lady was kind enough to introduce her but she marched against apartheid as a student in south africa. She worked hard in the decades since to improve the lives of women with respect to the environment and health, and i am delighted to call her my wife. [applause] as you know, i returned less than 48 hours ago from europe and the middle east where i visited the countries that represent a very Broad Spectrum of progress on gender equality, and i met with dozens of leaders, but i also listened to a lot of every day citizens. People who, like todays honorees, know that you dont have to be elected or appointed in order to make a difference. I spoke with one woman in berlin. She is muslim. She told me she is part of an organization of teenagers who have created a dialogue about equality and tolerance, so my friends, steps from the markings,
This week on q a, Jody Williams, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize discusses her recent autobiography titled, my name is Jody Williams. . Jody williams, what role did a pamphlet play in your life . I was living here in washington, d. C. , it was february of 1981, i was rushing to the metro stop trying to get on the train early and get home to virginia and some scruffy looking individual shoved a pamphlet at me, kind of like you had no choice but to take it and you and i are old enough to remember mimeograph, the ink came off on my hands and i was getting annoyed but i looked at it, and it said, el salvador, another vietnam. My first protest was against vietnam, and so when i saw el salvador compared to vietnam, i was interested. I ended up going to a meeting, and i volunteered, shoving those same mimeographed pamphlets into peoples hands trying to educate people. Who handed out those pamphlets . The committee for solidarity with the people of el salvador, i worked with them for a few mon
Pamphlet at me, kind of like you had no choice but to take it and you and i are old enough to remember mimeograph, the ink came off on my hands and i was getting annoyed but i looked at it, and it said, el salvador, another vietnam. My first protest was against vietnam, and so when i saw el salvador compared to vietnam, i was interested. I ended up going to a meeting, and i volunteered, shoving those same mimeographed pamphlets into peoples hands trying to educate people. Who handed out those pamphlets . The committee for solidarity with the people of el salvador, i worked with them for a few months, but then i thought since the Reagan Administration was taking a regional approach to south america, i thought their approach should be regional and they disagreed. Where did the money come from . I wasnt paid. But for the organization . I think it was all donations. But im not sure, i was just a volunteer. Who cared about el salvador back then . Reagan, if you remember, was drawing the lin
Is right, and that we, from this particular committee, provides oversight that if has in the past, and i imagine will continue to do. In our role, it is to continue help agencies in terms of their of violating their progress and making recommendations where appropriate. One last question, and im interested in knowing what is the most common cyber attack that your Company Faces and how that threat could best be alleviated. If you look at the higher risk ones, these numbers sound bizarre, but when you look at the things that used to be a big deal like viruses, there are hundreds of thousands of those, and we protect those pretty well. What we are challenged with the most is threats from highly resource to organizations today that are targeting us and persistent with us. The concern is because those are developed that they end up going down and get learned and can migrate down into less sophisticated hands to work through. I think the fact that we have a Large Organization and by my readi
Authority . Again, you dont have an explicit authorization from congress on the air strikes, on what were doing now. What congress voted on was arming syrian rebels. The question im asking, is the Legal Authority to go into syria now, to do air strikes now, based on this idea of an imminent threat, is that how youre coaching it to congress . With respect to this group of al qaeda operatives and this group of al qaeda veterans, yes, they pose a threat to the United States and to our partners, and we were watching them conduct what we determined to be advanced stage plotting. And the president s been clear under current authority, he has the authority to go after, take that fight to disrupt al qaeda operatives and their associated forces to disrupt that plotting. Hes also been quite clear hes got the authority he needs to take this fight to isil, but this is not americas fight alone. What you saw last night was five arab nations working in a Broad Coalition to take that fight to isil und