Warren Christopher

“Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.”

“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.”

“This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country.”

“Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.”

“The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.”

“You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment.”

“The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in.”

“We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together.”

“We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.”

“Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.”

“Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.”

“It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.”

“When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.”

“The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.”

“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.”