"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."

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"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."

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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."

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"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."

Integration

"One always wonders about roads not taken."

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Diplomacy

"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."

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"It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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