Stephen Hadley Obviously Quotations

Obviously there's an election coming up. We would like it to be free and fair. And a prerequisite of free and fair elections is that you don't beat up opposition candidates or opposition supporters and throw them in jail.

We have seen those reports out of Pakistan. At this point, we are not in a position publicly to confirm that he is dead. But we're obviously -- if he is, that's a good thing for the war on terror.

Everybody understands the Sunnis need to be part of this process going forward and need to be part of this government. How that will sort out and get down is obviously for the Iraqis to decide.

an issue of our intelligence, and obviously we need to do a better job of our intelligence.

Argentina is the host. Argentina has taken a strong hand in forming the agenda, and we will obviously want to support that. And the president will make a contribution on those topics.

One cannot let dangers grow to the point of imminent threat to the United States without taking action. And if other measures fail, obviously we retain to right to use force.

That said, one of the things we've also made clear -- and the president was trying to make clear the other night -- is when President Putin says that he is committed to democracy, people will obviously watch and see how that is manifested in action.

His approach is to not to try and dominate but to participate as one of equals and listen, and that's what he did. At critical times he made his views obviously clear.