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" Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies. "

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" We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO. "

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" My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened. "

" The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace. "

" We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together. "

" We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone. "

" The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in. "

" You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment. "

" Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too. "

" Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie. "

" The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information. "

" We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability. "

" I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues. "

" Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible? "

" When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. "

" I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress. "

" Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II. "

" One always wonders about roads not taken. "

" It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing. "

" I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic. "

" I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case. "

" This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country. "

" I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area. "

" I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems. "

" I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces. "

" Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory. "

" It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question. "

" The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal. "

" It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe. "

" We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path. "