Robert Holleyman Quotations

I would describe the agreement as progress. Clearly more remains to be done.

We'd like to see some progress in terms of criminal enforcement.

We urge the U.S. government to use the tools at its disposal to persuade the Russian government to take concrete action to reduce piracy significantly.

When software thieves go unpunished, innovation suffers and the economy doesn't grow as fast as it should. Today's announcement will provide software makers with important on-the-ground assistance to combat theft in problematic regions.

Experience in other countries shows ... that governments can undertake efforts that can yield substantial reduction in enterprise fairly quickly.

We are cautiously optimistic we will get some good results today.

These discussions are headed in the right direction, and we remain hopeful that the Chinese government will translate these principles into concrete action.

In all those countries, there's a long history of bilateral discussions on IPR issues, ... So I think they will be very receptive to getting on-the-ground systems to help with this effort.

California is the home of the U.S. software industry, and the levels in piracy in China are enormous. Nine out of 10 software programs in use in China are pirated.

The levels of piracy within China as a whole are extremely high, but our sense is that the government record is much better than that.