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I think it's always important when you're approaching Middle East peace never to set your hopes too low.

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Ross said the report allowed both Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to move without appearing to make unpopular concessions. It may give each of them an excuse to do something, ... They will not respond to each other. That much is very clear.

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The problem is, you've got a complete dysfunction on the Palestinian side. For all the talk of peace process, the United States will be with Israel on its unilateral steps and hoping that the next prime minister of Israel will do what Sharon would have done.

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The work is going very well, and ... I hope and expect that we will conclude an agreement shortly thereafter.

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AIPAC is taking the public statements seriously. They're alarmed by a nuclear capability, and the administration appears to be adopting an approach that isn't changing Iranian behavior.

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absurd.

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That's the new struggle of our time, and we have to frame it that way to understand what we're contending with and why it's so important for us not to fail.

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And that's going to create a stalemate between the two sides unless we build a bridge to the future in advance of that stalemate.

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We had a very good discussion, and I think we are making headway. Issues are being dealt with seriously, intensively and comprehensively in a way that I think gives us a chance to put the process back on track.

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the peace process is still alive.

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This is a leader who governed Syria for 30 years. The landscape is changing with the change in Syria. The landscape is changing with Israel being out of Lebanon. The landscape is changing with permanent status negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians that are serious.

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At this moment, the differences are too difficult to overcome, ... We need more time to work them out.

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If you have differences, the place to deal with differences is at the table, not on the streets, ... There is no place for violence in this process.

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The nuclear weapons would deter us from attacking them, and they see that the weapons also give them great leverage.

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In these countries there still is a climate that certainly makes it possible and doesn't make it illegitimate to embrace this ideology.

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We're not looking for meetings as an end in themselves. We're looking for results.

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There isn't a peace process if you don't overcome the differences. Security is one part of it, political is the other. In the current circumstances, the first thing that must be done is to reestablish a basis for security.

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When one thinks about religion, one should think about peace.

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We're hopeful that we'll see an agreement very soon.

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What's important is not meetings for their own sake but results ... that will have a consequence on the security environment.

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This is a process that has been going on for a long time. The ideas were originally conveyed in the middle of January. At some point it has to come to a conclusion.

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President Clinton made it clear he is prepared to get them together again if he is satisfied there's a readiness to make decisions.

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What the Bush administration needs to do is ... make their own assessment exactly what the landscape is. What's possible, what's meaningful. And if they focus that way, that will inevitably take some time.

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To have peace in the Middle East, we are going to have to see that religion is a source of peace.

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It has been clear from the guidance I had in coming out here that both ... (Secretary of State Madeleine Albright) and the president believe that it is important to bring this process to a conclusion. But the president and the secretary will make a decision on when it is appropriate to do so.

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