Everybody is within reach of a television set. And so they're all politicized, and they're all stimulated, and then they have these desires, pleasures, hates, resentments, and so on, and they're reacting instantaneously.

I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.