We will stick to the text of the Beijing [agreement], and I believe we can make progress if everybody sticks to what we agreed to,

Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

I’m a huge proponent of exchanges, student exchanges, cultural exchanges, university exchanges. We talk a lot about public diplomacy, … It’s extremely important that we get our message out, but it’s also the case that...

You have to go out and warn. You have a duty to warn, … Late Edition.

The most important step is for all to act with a sense of calm, a sense of statesmanship, … Violence will achieve nothing, and if all parties are committed to the creation of a calm...

We understand that the Israelis have to defend themselves. It’s just extremely important that the Israelis also keep in mind the long view here.

We have a long road ahead, a long road ahead. I have to say as a football fan, sometimes the last yard is the hardest, and I think we experienced that today.

impeccable on civil rights, impeccable on the interests of African-Americans, and I’m quite comfortable with his decision.

I think I can honestly say that without Ms. Parks, I would probably not be standing here today as (U.S.) secretary of State, … made America face up to its greatest defect.

We’ve been a country that’s been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating...

We understand this is a transition and we think everybody else understands this is a transitional process.

Economics and security are inextricably linked. You only have to look at what happened in a place like Bali, when you had the terrorist attack there, you can see that the economy and terrorism are...

With our decision today, we show that Syria has isolated itself from the international community, … Now, the Syrian government must make a strategic decision to fundamentally change its behavior.

No cause, no movement and no grievance can justify the intentional killing of innocent civilians and noncombatants,

We share a concern about events on the Korean Peninsula,

Lebanon has to be free of foreign interference. This is an issue of national sovereignty for Lebanon, and Syria has to respect that,

differences can be a strength.

Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race.

Today is another sad reminder that terror knows no borders and respects no religion, … These acts are made more heinous in that they deliberately targeted innocent civilians preparing for holiday celebrations.

John Bolton is personally committed to the future success of the United Nations, and he will be a strong voice for reform at a time when the United Nations has begun to reform itself to...

The United States does have, in fact, productive relations with Russia.

[Speaking on CNN’s] Late Edition, … has said that it’s a religious duty to have weapons of mass destruction, so we’re taking it very seriously,

It again shows that people will take innocent life without any remorse…Jordan, of course, has been a tremendous fighter and ally in the war on terror.

I don’t think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot...

Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use...

We are very focused on hoping that these negotiations do succeed,

We think it’s a bad idea,

And so it is absolutely the case that you cannot have armed groups ultimately participating in politics with no expectation that they’re going to disarm.

If there’s a concern right now with the U.N., it is that we really do need a strong reform agenda on the key issues – management reform, secretariat reform.

They were interested, but they have never really demonstrated that they were interested in the Russian proposal as the Russians had actually put it forward.

The world has to pull together and send a very strong message to the Iraqis.

Well, there’s been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can’t continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international...

We will need, I really do believe, to go back to the Security Council at some time in the not-too-distant future to get a report on what is happening with Syrian cooperation.

it is of concern to everyone.

It is time for this to end.

Hijacking before 9/11 and hijacking after 9/11 mean two very different things.

Our views concerning Iran are very well known by this time, and we have communicated to the Indian government our concerns about gas pipeline cooperation between Iran and India,

They have now crossed a point where they are in open defiance [of the world community].

We need a common enemy to unite us.

a network that is spreading poisons throughout Europe.

But the information that there were plots under way that might relate to the pre-election period came from multiple sources, and active multiple sources.

Unless something is done very quickly… it becomes very difficult to see the transformation of Gaza into a peaceful and well-governed place,

They will talk about issues concerning the continued march of democracy in Europe and also in Russia,

When you talk about the longer-term goal of a stable, democratic, multiethnic, unitary Iraq, that’s going to take a long time,

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not...

The United States is committed to helping Iraq recover from the conflict, but Iraq will not require sustained aid.

The Egyptian government must fulfill the promise it made to its people – and to the entire world – by giving its citizens the freedom to choose. Egypt’s elections, including the parliamentary elections, must meet...

In hindsight, if anything might have helped stop 9/11, it would have been better information about threats inside the United States.

I think we can’t keep moving the bar for the Iraqis.