Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.

The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.

Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.