We were within international waters, we were within international airspace, when this incident occurred, ... An apology is not forthcoming.

I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that.

It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.

Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.

We've always said that we were not going to have a cookie-cutter approach,

unfortunately on a path right now where relations are not improving, but are worsening.