It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.

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I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop...

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You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle...

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I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have...

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You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I...

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I mean, the idea that Bar could have sent him off on a Grand Tour....

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Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need...

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Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?

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The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're...

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Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers....

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My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

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You know, there were 29 Democratic votes for censure in the Senate. And if the...

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C'mon. He'd be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a...

Keep your enemies in front of you.

Keep your enemies in front of you.

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We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card...

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Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a...

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Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush...

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Well, the right-wing policy with regard to Israel - the people who don't want to...