42 Quotes by Mitchell Reiss

What Libya did was make a strategic determination that it would have a better future-a more secure, a more prosperous future-if it abandoned its weapons of mass destruction.

We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility.

What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path.

So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue.

No political party, and certainly no responsible political leadership, deserves to serve in a government unless it cooperates and supports fully and unconditionally the police, and calls on its supporters to do so.

It is fundamentally, existentially, in their own interest that they and their neighbors do not acquire nuclear weapons.

We have a model that we're following, and it's the Libya model.

We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we're going to need in order to go forward.

First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated.