"Now you are about to unveil a long-awaited peace agreement that you have drafted, no doubt with demands to follow, that the Palestinians be grateful for that plan and regard the U.S. as a fair-minded arbiter who respects their aspirations."
"I don't know how that lesson is lost--it appears to me, honestly, Mr. Secretary, that it has been lost on the Palestinian community."
"One of the guiding schools of thought on all sides I think, for years, has been the need for the U.S. to facilitate direct negotiations between the two parties."
"Our foreign policy and our immigration policy in recent years has focused on these countries by virtue of the migrant flows."
"And this is the path forward, you are confident, to totally marginalize and alienate the Palestinian side?"
"How could anyone think cutting off that aid is in this country's interest?"
"I think what we have heard is very important, Madam Chairwoman, about the kind of analysis that needs to be done..."
"And I am optimistic that what we are doing will give us a better likelihood that we will achieve the outcomes that will be better for both the people of Israel and the Palestinian people as well."
"the brief that you are referring to was filed by the Department in I think in 2017, before I joined the Department"
"certainly constitutional rights are the most fundamental rights we have in our country"
"if the United States were to amend the Constitution to extend a constitutional right to convicted felons, then that would broaden the right to vote"