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. |
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 to say how it's going to settle down until we see whether he recovers or what shape he's going to be in. |
I think Washington is assessing now what the best time would be for stepped up engagement. But they'll make that decision in Washington. |
It is time for (Hussein) to go, ... As long as he is around, nothing is going to change his brutal behavior. |
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. |
It's hard to see how $75 million makes a dent in that political reality. |
Jeopardizing the national security interests of the U.S. is absolutely abhorrent to me, and I would never do anything to compromise those interests, |
promotion of U.S. interests in the Middle East, especially in support of President Clinton's efforts to achieve a comprehensive peace. |
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, |
the endless propaganda that comes out of Baghdad. |
The people of Israel will be able to sleep easier at night, |
The process to try to bring Sunnis and Shiites together can be overwhelmed, |
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 and cabinet. |
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. |
to take steps to curb the incitement, curb the violence. |