most candid and direct conversations about what we do that annoys the other.

Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

In my conversations this afternoon with Arafat we discussed this in considerable detail, ... And he responded to me, he would take every effort he could to end the violence, to give the necessary instructions to speak out against violence.

They find all kinds of excuses, a thousand excuses -- 'There are spies on this team. We don't want this. When are sanctions going to be relieved and removed?' The issue is Iraqi noncompliance, and we should not allow them to move us off that issue.

you can't find actual germs on them.

They were anticipating a different kind of immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, it turned out to be not exactly as they had anticipated.