126 Quotes by Nicholas Burns

We think it's a highly significant appointment which ought to be welcomed by the detractors of our president's policy.

We see a possibility of creating with India one of the two or three or four strategic relationships we have with anyone in the world.

Us companies will be able to enter India's lucrative and growing energy market, potentially providing jobs for thousands of Americans.

Washington was under obligation to see that NSG countries also undertake requisite steps for similar cooperation with India.

Everything in the documents that have been passed over to the parties on Thursday and Friday ... had been talked about in advance, ... Everything had been negotiated in advance, ... including the question of the makeup of the future government.

Every country in these meetings said that some type of action had to be taken. All of us want to take one collective, multilateral action in New York at the Security Council.

Based on our conversations today, we think we can overcome the problems and I think there is a fair chance there could be a Contact Group meeting on Tuesday

contribute to reducing the tensions that are so evident.

There's no way anybody from the outside can comment publicly and criticize the actions of our government midstream in a negotiation.