“I know people are saying we should have left things the way they were, but I changed after 9/11. I had to act. I don’t care if it created more enemies. I had to act.”
“I think the election of Hamas was a good thing. It proved to [Mahmoud] Abbas he was failing. I told Abbas, ”˜You lost the election because you aren’t providing for your people, jobs, education, what people want.’ Now they know they have to compete.”
The problem is [Ehud] Olmert. This is a man who came to power on a promise that he was going to unilaterally define a Palestinian state. You can’t pressure democracies.”
“We can have meetings [with Iran]. Talking is not the problem. We can talk to Iran. But Iran wants nuclear weapons and I’m not going to let that happen. Not on my watch. We tried to have dialogue with Syria, right after the war, didn’t get much.”