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 is a commitment. - Warren Christopher

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

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. - Warren Christopher

We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO. - Warren Christopher

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. - Warren Christopher

We see considerable strain in Russia, and that is obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path. - Warren Christopher

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. - Warren Christopher

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. - Warren Christopher

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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. - Warren Christopher

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The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere. - Warren Christopher

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace. - Warren Christopher

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal. - Warren Christopher

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. - Warren Christopher

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. - Warren Christopher

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. - Warren Christopher