I think it is important, and it needs to be in the best interests of the United States and not particularly interest groups.

We passed last year with 72 votes in the Senate of the United States lifting the embargo on food and medicine.

I think we should engage them, then, with trade, with economic activity, with cultural and educational activities.

We did not succeed, regrettably, in getting the tax initiative component of that, which is the real incentive for the pharmaceutical companies to actually create the vaccine.

If I could just comment quickly, because Senator Frist and I collaborated last year on the AIDS initiative.

I congratulate the President-elect for making a very wise, wise choice.

I wonder if you might think it is time for us to re-engage Haiti here, to test the determination...

I have great respect for the exile community and what they have been through.

As I said to President Bush at the beginning of Desert Storm... the answer was: We want to make this a given that we are going to win.

I hope that we will work to address together in the coming year.

it is my intent to offer my help to you any way I can at any time.

It is a great organization. It is deserving of our support.

I especially want to congratulate my good friend, Ambassador Dick Holbrooke, and also Secretary Albright and so many others for the wonderful work they did.

I am interested in hearing your views on how we can achieve still further reductions.

We are, notwithstanding what some people do not like to admit, both a European and an Asian power.

President-elect Bush shares this goal and we will do our part to keep the peace process moving forward.

I commit, and I suspect all my colleagues on the Democratic side do as well, to work in good faith with you and the President to try to build a foreign policy that enjoys a broad consensus.

I do not know--there is a lot of revisionist history going on in this place.