Derek Mitchell Quotations

We have a vision we're implementing of a much more active and robust U.S.-Japanese alliance in the region that is constructive and helps provide peace and stability. To the degree that Japan is not seen as constructive, as having not dealt with its past, and therefore not welcome to be involved in the region, it hurts us.

We're treading a really fine line on this, and there is a debate among people in Washington about what we should do,

Why is he going to Mongolia? ... It is part of the mantra of Bush's second term of promoting democracy. Mongolia is the only Asian communist country to go democratic and they have troops in Iraq.

There are always glitches, problems that can go wrong, especially in the early stages of space flight,

With the costs that have been stripped out of a lot of companies, any pick-up in business they see feeds very quickly through the operational gearing.

The run of economic data and company news we've had has been fine. There's been nothing in there to cause any shock to the market. That's beginning to give the market confidence that better times are here and we can look forward.

It was very embarrassing for the president of China to have to withstand that. This is the one thing they put the most effort into - the pageantry was set. They had to be mortified.

South Korea put a lot of pressure on the United States South Korea told us they consider this an alliance issue,

South Korea put a lot of pressure on the United States ... South Korea told us they consider this an alliance issue.

There's a lot of frustration at all levels. There's a sense that the Chinese are not giving on anything.

There just isn't that much attention to Asia compared to the Middle East and Iraq, ... Everything is seen through the prism of the war on terror.

It might not be a popular opinion, but at this point, it's something that needs to be done. We don't want it to become some out of control secure event; we just want people to have fun.

A good start to increasing voter turnout is to stop disenfranchising half of the voters.