It is absolutely inaccurate to suggest that nobody paid a price in the State Department for what happened.
We take no back seat to any administration ever in our support and our friendship and commitment to the state of Israel.
It is my job to lay down a process by which we can measure it.
I don't believe that it is. I mean, it depends what you, I suppose, engage in.
I sat here and said we are skeptical. I sat here and said they have got to prove it.
We have to build a process. So what we did was we got, I thought, a remarkable amount.
I think their rhetoric is dangerous and threatening and, you know, incredibly counterproductive and damaging to any pote...
I didn't say trust. I said test and verify. Nothing is not based on trust yet, certainly.
I have hope. I can't speak for what they will do or not do.
Sanctions are not going to produce capitulation, and I think that is part of the calculation here.
This opportunity is huge and still exists, but we are not going to link them to the nuclear, because it prejudices them.