"that's something we do need to make sure that's being said as we pursue this process."
"Does our State Department have indications that the NLD and other opposition groups are prepared to support the elections process?"
"We should, I think, as U.S. policy, not be dependent on any individual or group, however benign, on the development of our foreign policy."
"I'd like to go back to an important point that Professor Williams made, that Burma's problems began in ethnic conflict, and will continue until the underlying issues are addressed."
"The goal of our government... ought to be to try and take this document, move it from fraud into transition."
"The administration unequivocally supports the initiation of a credible dialogue among the regime, the democratic opposition, and ethnic minority groups to discuss a shared vision for Burma's future."
"What is the view of the administration with respect to the elections process, the constitution, and the potential timing of implementing legislation, and the timing of the elections following the impl..."
"the United States has no military ambitions or objectives of any kind inside the country."
"the major contributor to the openness that we have seen--however imperfect--in Vietnam was lifting the trade embargo."
"The new constitution will provide military control, as Dr. Williams has said, over the society."
"I think the most important thing in thinking about 2010 is not thinking about this as necessarily a first step toward--in a democratic transition, but to think about 2010 as a huge reorganization of t..."