Dennis Ross
Dennis Ross
Dennis B. Rossis an American diplomat and author. He has served as the Director of Policy Planning in the State Department under President George H. W. Bush, the special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton, and was a special adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asiato the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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To have peace in the Middle East, we are going to have to see that religion is a source of peace.
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I think it's always important when you're approaching Middle East peace never to set your hopes too low.
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It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.
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This is a process that has been going on for a long time. The ideas were originally conveyed in the middle of January. At some point it has to come to a conclusion.
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The president ... wants me to focus on the security questions and I will be doing that,
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What's important is not meetings for their own sake but results ... that will have a consequence on the security environment.
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When one thinks about religion, one should think about peace.
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We're not looking for meetings as an end in themselves. We're looking for results.
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We have a beginning. It's a step in the right direction. Now we have to see results.
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What the Bush administration needs to do is ... make their own assessment exactly what the landscape is. What's possible, what's meaningful. And if they focus that way, that will inevitably take some time.
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We are certainly at a very delicate moment where there is also a great deal of potential.
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Both men realize there is no military solution to the problem.
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My focus right now is meeting with each side ... to see what kind of conclusions they have drawn about the insights that developed at Camp David, and then we'll see if there are ways to overcome the differences,
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On the Israeli side there is real questioning, you do not see any signs of dilemma on the other side.