We have very few options, and the clock is ticking. It's getting very late in the game.

A clock does not care how we spend our time, it simply does it's job and continues ticking.

The frustration level is very, very high.

We're trapped in this twilight zone.

We're in a hurry. Our domestic political clock is ticking, ... But you can't do this in a hurry-that's the dilemma.

It's sunk in. When the clock was ticking, I was really conscious of it. To go out like we did is demoralizing.