It's going to take an extra effort on the part of the United States that can't just afford to be unconcerned about the situation.

No one is suggesting, and no one should suggest, that the United States is anything but vigilant and determined in its opposition to the proliferation and even the use of biological weapons,

[Haig told Perot that] the Christmas effort to send mail to U.S. prisoners of war in North Vietnam caught Hanoi off balance, and its handling of the matter caused it to lose face in the eyes of diplomats and other foreign officials in North Vietnam. ... a tremendous success.

As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.

We're going to use this Amadou Diallo case to stop this in these United States once and for all. Just like we needed the federal government to come into Alabama and Mississippi 30 years ago, we need the federal government to come into New York to deal with the police today.

We have overcomplicated the issue, ... The United States has been attacked on its territory with thousands of casualties. All the United States is saying it cannot tolerate weapons of mass destruction in that region.