Jeopardizing the national security interests of the U.S. is absolutely abhorrent to me, and I would never do anything to compromise those interests,

It is time for (Hussein) to go, … As long as he is around, nothing is going to change his brutal behavior.

The effort to indict Saddam Hussein as a war criminal is now getting under way, and we are using our diplomacy to try to support the establishment of a war crimes commission on Iraq,

There is a lot of blame to go around. But on the American side, the conceptual failure that contributed to disaster was the president’s belief that democracy and elections solve everything.

Chairman Arafat is not in Gaza, he’s traveling around the world, and therefore one critical player in this process is not available to us at the moment.

promotion of U.S. interests in the Middle East, especially in support of President Clinton’s efforts to achieve a comprehensive peace.

to take steps to curb the incitement, curb the violence.

unprecedented in Israeli history and tantamount to a huge political earthquake.

We will be launching an effort to help them organize and coordinate their case against Saddam Hussein,

It’s hard to see how $75 million makes a dent in that political reality.

It will take time and hard work. A lot more will be done behind the scenes than will be noticeable publicly, at least at first.

He’s such a dominant political figure. Now, more than ever, is the party that he just formed so dominant in the polls that it really shakes the whole political system to its core. It’s impossible...

The people of Israel will be able to sleep easier at night,

There is a certain irony in this because so much of the effort of the quartet had been spent on reducing the powers of the presidency and building up the powers of the prime minister...

We too have high hopes that a new era is going to begin very shortly.

the endless propaganda that comes out of Baghdad.

The process to try to bring Sunnis and Shiites together can be overwhelmed,

I think Washington is assessing now what the best time would be for stepped up engagement. But they’ll make that decision in Washington.