We urge [the peacekeepers] to seize the initiative, respond to this wave of criminality and be more proactive to dissuade violence.

People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.

It is clear that [the election authorities] have to undertake some practical steps in an urgent way to organize the way they work and make decisions to [register] a preponderance of the voters by mid-August.

There'll be a will in the inter-American community to isolate Nicaragua politically and economically if there were this sort of power grab against the elected president of the country by elements of Nicaragua that are behaving very, very irresponsibly, that have put the personal interests of a couple of leaders ahead of the national interest.

Life doesn't take turns, so just play what you got when you got it.

They're rolling the dice on the entire initiative process. He's going to be held responsible.