126 Quotes by Nicholas Burns

We are (also) disappointed that Radovan Karadzic is still at large and not in the Hague,

We are going to keep Saddam Hussein guessing. He'll just have to wonder what the United States has in store for him.

It is very important that as we go along, we meet the commitments made to each other. And that we not move the goalposts or, as we say in American English, raise the bar.

We decided that it was in the American interest to bring India into compliance with the standards and practices of the international non-proliferation regime,

We hope very much that we can schedule a date and venue for a briefing on the four-party talks, ... The North Koreans have agreed to that. We just need to schedule it.

It's the obligation of the Serb and Serbia-Montenegrin government to find these people and to arrest them,

We hope very much that this issue can be resolved very soon,

That is a signal both to the United States and to the rest of the international community that this move by the Indian government is permanent. It's going to be sustainable and it's not going to be taken back.

We hope very much for the sake of the Russian republic and the Chechen people that there will be no return to the bloodletting.