David Welch Quotes

If confidence can be built between the two parties, that can ... offer a real chance to re-energize the road map.

There may be ways in which we can support that. We`ll have to see.

If confidence can be built between the two parties, that can ... offer a real chance to re-energize the roadmap.

By 2010, (the sensors) will be from Baja California all the way to the Bering Sea.

We would like the Sharm el-Sheik understandings fully implemented.

He has been the leader, and he has had the focus and everyone rowing the boat in the same direction. To change would be difficult, especially with two board members leaving and half the cabinet retiring.

The disengagement from Gaza is a bold step. It has changed the political landscape. It offers a new chance to do something different between the Israelis and Palestinians, and we would like to see if it can bear further fruit.

This is an important effort on our part to help rebuild the Palestinian economy and infrastructure.

overall Palestinian Authority performance to date has been far from satisfactory.

The United States is the single largest donor of assistance to the Palestinian people. We have about this year -- if you count the regular assistance budget to the Palestinians, plus supplemental assistance, we are devoting approximately 350 million dollars to this.