Richard Boucher Quotes (270 Quotes)

There's been a lot of speculation, one way or the other, on the peace process

The secretary expressed his strong support for the progress that's been made in the relationship and the hope that we could see even more progress, including on the military-to-military relationships.

Our belief is in democracy. The Hong Kong people and the Hong Kong government need to start addressing this issue.

The worldwide caution we put out on June 22 does indicate that posts may temporarily suspend operations or close to the public in response to threat information, security concerns or simply to review security postures.

We would hope that the governments involved -- that would be Australia, Norway and Indonesia -- would cooperate to resolve the issue.

The Israelis need to understand that incursions like this will not solve the security problems. They only make matters worse. As a consequence, we believe the Israelis should withdraw their forces from this area.

so-called National Liberation Army, which has threatened civilians and deliberately puts civilians into jeopardy.

In order for such discussions to take place, however, a climate of trust must be created through sincere efforts to end the violence and, of course, taking the wishes of the Kashmiri people into account,

There will be a variety of kinds of support from the United States. Whether that involves soldiers deployed on the ground, that's a decision the president will have to make at the appropriate time.

the movement of this office was part of the investigation process, and has been considered for some time.

I wouldn't describe it a fait accompli ... We look to keep making progress on the issues of concern to us, and want to make sure that any further steps are part of that progress.

We continue to think that the burden is on Iran to satisfy the world that it's not going to develop nuclear weapons. There is no reason for them to have an enrichment and reprocessing program. We know how it's been used in the past.

Unfortunately, in addition to these wild charges and ridiculous statements that we've seen, we haven't seen any concrete progress on reversing the negative trends,

It is important to us to be able to keep working with the parties and try to do what we can diplomatically to calm the situation, get back to implementation of the agreements of the cease-fire.

Our concern in this kind of case would be for the safety and the welfare for the people on board the vessel,

The circumstances are fairly interesting and lead to the conclusion ... that this nuclear program in Iran is not peaceful and certainly is not transparent.

(Albright) looks forward to discussing bilateral relations and the progress being made on issues of concern to the United States.

Obviously, any punitive measures against her would call into question Cambodia's commitment to fight human trafficking.

what can you do to help stop the terror and to get us moving down the road that we've outlined, the road toward peace

Each post will look at its security posture and reopen at an appropriate time.