15 Quotes by Martin Indyk

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.