103 Quotes by George Robertson

NATO is prepared to consider such changes if it will not create a vacuum or lead to new fighting, and is part of a settlement to the problems in the region, ... Premature changes, however, carry the risk of only making matters worse.

(On) September 11 the world was caught unprepared...and we had no real recipe to deal with it.

If there were to be clear and unambiguous evidence that (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic was meeting the conditions, and that he seemed to be doing so, then we would consider a bombing pause to allow an orderly withdrawal of his forces,

I have heard the news and greatly welcome it. I hope it will lead to greater stability for the people of Iraq.

I have absolutely no doubt that the alliance will, as it has promised, stand by its ally Turkey, which happens to be a neighbor of Iraq, ... There is no dispute about that at all.

He would be getting a cold feeling down his spine, ... As defense minister he will know the real truth that he is hiding from people. And he will know that in a month NATO has only lost one plane, and he will despair at the freedom that NATO aircraft roam the skies destroying his military at will, during the day as well as at night.

He has huge amounts of deadly substances that can kill almost unquantifiable numbers of people.

He is in the free world again. I have no doubt he will express his views.

There is a disagreement on timing at the moment by a small number of nations, but there is no disagreement on substance at all. This is not some sort of bust-up.