George Mitchell: “The problem is, if I take it off and the agreement is approved, I could not put it back on.”

Israel's gains are substantial in terms of degrading Hamas' capability first through the tunnels to have the fighters enter Israel and then secondly, it's capacity to launch missiles to Israel.

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…

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 has a responsibility, not just to the president, obviously he has to the members of his caucus, but everyone has a higher responsibility to the country, to the constitution.