After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.
If those political conditions can come into place, then perhaps we can move forward.
Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.
I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.
The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't.
The United States is not going to support any particular political candidate or any particular party or list.
The Sunnis are joining the base of this broad political process. That will ultimately undo this insurgency. But of course, they can still pull off violent and spectacular attacks.
This is going to be a Palestinian process, and I think we have to give the Palestinians some room for the evolution of their political process,