Stephen Hadley People Quotations

I dispute the premise, ... I think most people you talk to would say our relations with Japan, Korea and China have rarely been better.

I think the point that we need to emphasize here was, allegations now that the president somehow manipulated intelligence, somehow misled the American people are flat wrong.

Palestinian President Abbas earned the trust of his people when he was elected on a platform of peace this past January. Now the Palestinian Authority must make good on that promise by fighting terrorism.

We all looked at the same intelligence, and most people -- on the intelligence -- reached the same conclusion.

We think, in the end of the day, China also faces a strategic choice: whether they are going to follow up the increasing amounts of economic freedom they're affording to the people and whether they are willing to respond to the inevitable demands of their people for political freedom as well.

At this point people are comfortable that the necessary precautions are in place but this is not a risk-free undertaking.

Some people say that the test of your principles is what you do when no one's looking.

People recognize that it would be problematic for Chavez to be in the nuclear business.

As part of that cooperation for our part, we comply with U.S. law. We respect the sovereignty of the countries with which we deal. And we do not move people around the world so that they can be tortured.

It's also an opportunity to pay tribute to the people of the Slovak Republic, and also other countries in the region, for the right choices they made in pursuing democracy and freedom.

That said, one of the things we've also made clear -- and the president was trying to make clear the other night -- is when President Putin says that he is committed to democracy, people will obviously watch and see how that is manifested in action.