I think we are at the beginning stages…. We’re working very hard, and I think we all need to work together on this,

Let me make this perfectly clear: I do not tell Chairman Butler what to do, … Chairman Butler has made it perfectly clear that he makes the operational decisions and that he takes orders and...

The Security Council sent a very strong message, … listen to the international community.

apologized — sort of.

That clearly was the most difficult day, and very emotional. And [it was] very, very hard to explain what had happened and talk to the families,

A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains,

NATO is doing for Europe’s East precisely what it did for Europe’s West after World War II,

It’s … essential that girls not be exploited and abused and exposed to AIDS, … It’s very important to fight back.

Unless the commitments necessary to end the violence are carried out in a way that is sustainable and mutually reinforcing, it will be difficult for the parties to change the realities on the ground,

We will stand our ground, and we will be patient,

In our relationship with China, these are neither the best of times nor the worst of times,

I would like to say how very pleased I am to be able to spend this day in North Carolina, … I would like to thank the chairman for inviting me.

We are obviously concerned about what is happening there and are urging all parties to exercise restraint,

So many, so loved, have been lost.

This is a visionary idea, … This is an investment in the future.

His priorities are wrong,

We are going to try to defuse this,

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands,

I go determined that those responsible for these cowardly crimes will be held accountable. I go secure in the knowledge that America will never be intimidated or back down in the face of terrorists,

As a result, drug traffickers who once spent their days leading mule trains down jungle tracks are now ‘leading lights’ in Burma’s new market economy and ‘leading figures’ in its new political order,

But we have to do it in some way that does not harm our overall foreign policy interests,

The Moscow meeting gave a hefty push to collective cooperation, the aim of which is post-crisis peaceful construction of the Middle East,

The president and I spoke of the importance of constitutional reform in terms of its comprehensiveness and the ability of Kenyans to participate in the process,

We must continue to speak with clarity, … For while some Chinese dissidents have been released to exile in recent months, the Chinese government’s repression of dissent and religious freedom has not ceased.

We ought to be talking about issues that are beyond and around the nonproliferation issue,

I am confident today that the costs of a larger alliance will be real but affordable, and that NATO will emerge from this process with its military capabilities as strong as ever,

None of us would deny this is a very complicated issue, … If there were a simple solution, I think it would have been taken care of a long time ago.

breakthrough because we have been working at this for seven years, and it is very important for national security.

This is the first concrete way of translating what happened in Dayton, … For the first time in three-and-a-half years the Security Council is able to take action on resolutions that have something to do...

I mean at the moment, Kosovo is practically depopulated of Albanians, and that is not what we think is an appropriate end,

The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democracy should be exposed for what it truly is,

you cannot let this kind of thing go on any longer. How can you tolerate those horrible pictures that came out of Bosnia?

We expect nothing less than a complete interim agreement including Belgrade’s acceptance of a NATO-led force, … wake up and smell the coffee.

It will be a Chapter 7, and it will have NATO at its core, and it will have other countries associated with it,

I always do truly think about the fact that I have Thomas Jefferson’s job, … That is the part that always undoes me, because it is so hard to comprehend.

are not appropriate and premature.

It’s essential that we stay there and finish the job, … The American military that I met with when I was there, they understood why they were there and understood the value of peacekeeping.

We are very concerned about the violence, … It is clearly counterproductive in the peace process.

We are united in urging Belgrade to choose a future of integration, not destruction,

On Taiwan, I reiterated our strong commitment to a ‘one China’ policy, to the importance of direct dialogue and a peaceful resolution of the dispute,

We’re not into endless extensions,

seize this opportunity to achieve an interim settlement agreement in Kosovo.

We are not going to negotiate with him,

There are, however, new threats in the world that I think both countries need to consider.

In retrospect, you were right, … But we used every single tool we had in terms of trying to figure out what the right targets would be and how to go about dealing with what...

Time is no longer an ally of this process, it has become an adversary.

If Belgrade doesn’t reverse course, the Serbs alone will be responsible for the consequences,

They recognize this is an historic opportunity and that the killing must stop,

This embassy stands as a reminder that the terrorists who sought to destroy it failed utterly to achieve their ends. They wanted to force America to retreat from the world. We have not and will...

I consider that something that needs to be watched very carefully,