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What is your counsel?
Dennis Ross
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We need to become identified again with the broader public good.

Question: Collectively, what should we be doing?

 

Dennis Ross: Well I think again, collectively one of the things we have to do is we’ve got to take the poison out of our politics. We have to be able to forge what is a non-partisan approach to big issues. And internationally, one of the things we have to do is we have to become identified again with the broad public good.

 

Recorded on: September 12, 2007

 

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