Martin Indyk Quotations

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.

The process to try to bring Sunnis and Shiites together can be overwhelmed,

We too have high hopes that a new era is going to begin very shortly.

I think Washington is assessing now what the best time would be for stepped up engagement. But they'll make that decision in Washington.

Jeopardizing the national security interests of the U.S. is absolutely abhorrent to me, and I would never do anything to compromise those interests,

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.

We will be launching an effort to help them organize and coordinate their case against Saddam Hussein,

We will not seek to delay unnecessarily the transition to a permanent lifting of sanctions, ... We would like to see Libya genuinely comply and return to full participation in the family of nations. But the requirements set by the Security Council must first be addressed.

to take steps to curb the incitement, curb the violence.

promotion of U.S. interests in the Middle East, especially in support of President Clinton's efforts to achieve a comprehensive peace.

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.

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.

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.

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,