Quotes by Christopher Hill

“Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.”

“We do everything we can to bridge the remaining differences, and try to find a solution to this. And we are very much getting the ending.”

“did not make a lot of progress.”

“to be evolving a little.”

“We consider the fourth draft to be an very excellent basis for reaching the goals of principles that will guide us to the eventual agreement.”

“I dont detect among any of the parties a willingness to construct a light water reactor which will be a very expensive, very long-term type of project,”

“So I havent seen any of the parties coming forward to say that they are prepared to fund such a thing, so we are talking about a theoretical issue at this period.”

“I think they should focus on what is on the table,”

“Its not the only problem, but certainly it is a major problem.”

“Its very clear they wanted to spend today making this a light water reactor day. I hope this does not become a light water reactor week...”

“They are not interested in economic assistance, they seem to be interested in a light-water reactor as a sort of trophy.”

“Clearly, they have some problems with the draft, but we have some problems as well.”

“The six parties are currently in the process of evaluating where we are as right.”

“We are trying to work with it, ... We are trying to reach something with it. How this turns out we dont know yet.”

“The Chinese have given us a text to react to, some ideas, so were looking at those and having some internal discussions and talking with people in Washington,”

“We cannot create ambiguities at this stage that could lead to confusion in the next phase.”

“a good effort to try to bridge the remaining differences, which I believe are difficult but certainly not insurmountable.”

“The issue is the tactics of how we express the elements of the document.”

“Well see where we are at the end of the day.”

“The issue is how we express the elements in the text.”