I think it puts us all in a little better frame of mind.

I am proud that we have kept that commitment.

Those laws serve the American people well, and I will fight to maintain them.

We are very, very grateful for it.

Nothing—nothing—can justify this outrageous act at your hospital and innocent people being killed.

This has been a very successful meeting.

I think it was certainly a good idea to extend the meeting next year to other former Soviet states, and indeed other states as well.

I was quite confident that START II would be ratified in the fairly near future by the United States Senate.

I hope very much that this development will create an opportunity for terminating the military phase of the Russian operation in Chechnya and putting the quest for peace there back on a political track.

We hope that in the end all the people of Russia, including the people in Chechnya, can be reconciled so that your democracy can flourish everywhere and the cycle of violence can be broken.

We believe that ultimately in any democracy, all decisions were finally resolved in a political manner in a way that would permit the cycle of violence to be broken.

The United States has always said that Chechnya was a part of Russia and was ultimately a problem that had to be resolved by the people of your nation, consistent with your constitutional laws.

There has been too much reliance on violence and force, including on the part of the Russian government and the Russian armed forces.

I want to congratulate Salt Lake City on their successful pursuit of the Olympics in 2002.

I have made it clear from the beginning that we would not be involved with ground troops in this U.N. mission.

I strongly support the rapid reaction force.

I believe the best chance of that is before the electoral season begins in the summer of 1996.

The American people want to know that we will act during this Congress.