Nicholas Burns States Quotations

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

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.

Part of the purpose of my visit to Delhi this week is to work with the Indian government on a plan that would separate the civil and military nuclear states of India over the coming years, ... Once that plan has been clearly enunciated and once it has been committed to by the Indian government and we begin to see its implementation, it will be a short time before the U.S. Congress enacts the necessary legislative changes to bring this into being, and that will be a welcome moment, indeed.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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,

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.

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.