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"Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isnt that really quite incredible?"
"When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose."
"Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders."
"I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch."
"It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe."
"One always wonders about roads not taken."
"It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe."
"We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone."
"My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened."
"I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area."
"I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic."
"I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody."
"The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal."
"The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace."
"I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces."
"I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues."
"We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path."
"Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies."
"It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing."
"I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case."