Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.

In the fifteenth century the mere fact of owning and reading the Bible in English was presumptive evidence of heresy.

We are looking for full compliance. We'd like to see full compliance. I don't want to predict when exactly we'll see it, but we are working very hard to ensure it.

We agreed that we need to step up the pace to move ahead, but we also agreed there continue to be a lot of differences between the Serbs and Albanians on this,

We're not expecting North Korea to become a Jeffersonian democracy, but we do expect them to sit down and talk to us about these issues, to talk to the international community.

We know we are ready to sit down and negotiate and try to finish this thing. But the question is what (North Korea) has done during that one month,

So either they don't know arithmetic or they just haven't thought that through.

We had another long day. We made a little progress but I must say we didn't make enough progress.

It's really not our job to get them back to the talks. It's their job to get back to the talks.

We discussed some specific ideas about how we could make the process move ahead.