Dennis Ross President Quotations

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.

The president ... wants me to focus on the security questions and I will be doing that,

They acquire a kind of a momentum and we have to blunt that. I would like to see the president talk much more about those kinds of stakes because this is a way to explain what we're contending with, what we're fighting.

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

I need to go back to report to the president and secretary of state. The process has to be brought to conclusion at some point soon.