Stephen Hadley Quotes

"One cannot let dangers grow to the point of imminent threat to the United States without taking action. And if other measures fail, obviously we retain to right to use force."

"Action would have to be taken, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer."

"The president believes that we must remember the clearest lesson of Sept. 11: that the United States of America must confront threats before they fully materialize."

"We would obviously like, and the Indians would like, to use the occasion of this [Bush] visit to reach agreement on this separation agreement, so-called. We think that would be a good thing, but it's important to have a good agreement that works for the Indians, works for the United States, will be acceptable to our Congress and to the nuclear suppliers group, and that's our objective. We'd like to get it before the trip [by Bush to India]. If we can, great. If we can't, we'll continue to negotiate it after the trip."

"There's an issue of finalizing the relevant agreement and then signing it. The framework basically allows access to facilities so as to facilitate cooperation between the forces of the United States and Romania,"

"The Pentagon is looking into them. To the extent that kind of behavior is inconsistent with our policy, it will be stopped."

"will focus on his vision of a united trans-Atlantic community, working together to promote freedom and democracy, particularly in the broader Middle East."

"In terms of the Taiwan Straits [sic], obviously a conflict in the Taiwan Straits [sic], everybody loses. China loses, Taiwan loses, we lose, the area loses."

"There are questions raised in the Congress, and what this delay allows is for those questions to be addressed on the Hill. There's nothing to reopen."

"We're confident, the president is confident, when Congress really understands the transaction they will conclude as he did, it's the right thing to do."

"What the Congress and the companies are able to work out, we'll support and cooperate with so long as it does not involve a summary decision by the Congress that blocks this transaction."

"The language is agreed. The vehicle by which it is going to get enacted by the Congress is still being worked."

"The relationship with China is extremely complex. We have areas of very positive cooperation with China."

"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."

"We do not rule out the use of force before attacks occur, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy's attack."

"Obviously, we didn't have the intelligence we needed in that particular instance. In some sense, those countries that pursue weapons of mass destruction in secret also learned an important lesson - that there are risks of that kind of behavior and that kind of activity."

"Our statements about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein were based on the aggregation of intelligence from a number of sources and represented the collective view of the intelligence community,"

"Our statements about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein were based on the aggregation of intelligence from a number of sources and represented the collective view of the intelligence community."

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

"roughly the same intelligence that the Clinton administration saw."