Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
William Blaine "Bill" Richardson IIIis an American politician who was 30th Governor of New Mexico, from 2003 to 2011. He was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Energy Secretary in the Clinton administration and has also served as a U.S. Congressman, chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. In December 2008, he was nominated for the cabinet-level position of Secretary of Commerce in the first Obama administration but withdrew a month later...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 November 1947
CityPasadena, CA
CountryUnited States of America
We believe this is a good agreement, ... we see the British initiative as a good way to enforce the agreement.
We believe it's a good strong text calling for an international arms embargo. It's moving forward. Hopefully, it will be adopted in the next few days.
The rocket that goes up next March will not only lift a payload, it will launch what I believe will ultimately be the most significant commercial space facility in the country, ... This launch will be a brilliant signal flare that will let the nation and the world know New Mexico's spaceport is open for business. We can now say with certainty that the dream of this spaceport launching a new era in New Mexico's aerospace industry will become reality.
I don't believe that these profits that are being generated are being done without some kind of manipulation,
I believe they're sending signals of wanting to engage, ... Now there's a reprieve.
I believe they're sending signals of wanting to engage, but there are some tough negotiations ahead, ... And I'm not saying that they're going to be easy.
I believe there is some movement in the right direction,
I believe the Bush Administration deserves credit for putting pressure, and saying that authoritarian regimes have to go.
There is still mistrust, but I believe conditions for negotiations have improved, ... The atmosphere is the best I've seen in 15 years.
New Mexico is an energy state, and we believe in market-based solutions to the nation's energy and environment challenges.
Our policy is, it's better to engage the Chinese than isolate them. We have many differences with the Chinese, ... But we believe that by engaging China, we have achieved results in all these areas.
I believe that at our weapons labs right now, we have strong security procedures. We want to work with this committee on how we can improve that,
Granted, it's not going to be enough, but I believe, with the sheriff's department of the four counties that I issued the executive order, overtime pay, additional staffing of $1.7 million dollars, I think we're going to do a lot better job,
The coalition has reunited itself because of Iraqi behavior, ... We believe that there's strong unanimity and consensus on the council that Iraq's behavior has been unacceptable.