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Is there going to be a peace in the Middle East? Not in my lifetime.

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence.

What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists.

There can't be real peace without improving the integration of Arab society and making it part of the political game.

You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East.

Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights.