George Mitchell: “Egypt is undertaking a major role here and how they are able to succeed in that goes a long way toward deciding how much…”

If we start to means-test Social Security, it immediately becomes a welfare program.

When I first went to the Middle East, I went to 17 countries and I met with the leaders there many, many times, and every time they would criticize American policy, I would ask what do you think our policy should be?

I think we do have an obligation to do that because the United States is the indispensable party to any possible resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

I think he's confronted with the realities now. You can say anything you want on the campaign trail. You can promise anything you want. But when you confront the hard realities, when you're in office, when you get information that makes it…