Nicholas Burns United Quotations

The United States strongly condemns the violence by the Serbian police against the demonstrators who, by all accounts, have demonstrated peacefully.

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

This was an extraordinarily difficult process, ... This is not the end of the reform effort, it really is the beginning of a permanent reform effort that must be under way at the United Nations.

We're prepared for that debate. We will advise the Congress that it is our very clear judgment that this is a good deal for the United States as well as for India.

We will appoint a special American envoy to participate in support of the United Nations in these talks, and we will not favor any outcomes,

This is a clear signal to Hun Sen and his associates that the United States will not be conducting business as usual with those individuals,

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

These two individuals are standing in the way of Serbia's progress with NATO and the United States as well as with Europe.

The United States is sending a strong signal to all the parties that the United States wants the Dayton accords fully implemented.

The United States is in Vienna today (Tuesday) and tomorrow (Wednesday) arguing in the nuclear suppliers group that international restrictions on India should be lessened, ... We have already taken certain Indian entities off the proscribed list of the Commerce Department so they can do business with American firms and the United States government. I think by the time President Bush visits Delhi in early 2006 we will see that both our countries will have met our commitments in this landmark agreement and we will see it come to fruition.

The United States has said that we find the Russian proposal to be interesting. And it might be a good way to proceed for negotiation. We've never said that we accept, you know, every detail on that proposal.

It is the strong hope of the United States that Japan will decide to maintain its troops in Iraq beyond December of this year,

There is a great deal of frustration in the United States that this problem has not been resolved after such a long time.

We fully expect that the IAEA will refer this issue to the United Nations Security Council, where it should be,

In this very complex, globalized world, despite the power of the United States, we cannot go it alone, ... We do have to work through multilateral institutions. Each of them has their own strengths and weaknesses. The United Nations has both.

They must be prosecuted now that they have been indicted, and the United States will not be party to any agreement at Dayton to pardon them, or to plea bargain for them or to let them off easy.

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.