Nicholas Burns Quotes on People (5 Quotes)

This is a pressure cooker and people are not going to tolerate another five years of not knowing who they are, what country they live in and what their future is.

There is a historic opportunity for the people of Kosovo now to define their own future,

We very much hope that these sanctions will not be implemented bluntly in a way that would be damaging to the Iranian people, but it is going to be sanctions that will get the attention of the Iranian government.

This is a case that is not under the competence of the United States. It is under the competence of the Afghan authorities. We hope that the Afghan constitution is going to be upheld and in our view if it is upheld, he will be found to be innocent ... from an American point of view people should be free to choose their own religion.

If we continue to see policies that absolutely restrict the right of women and girls to be normal people, it will have an effect... on the ability of the international community to lend and to give assistance.