We're short of time — it's the fault of the Americans. They are always insisting on short deadlines. It's as if they're [making] hamburgers and fast food.

Americans are working very hard to work out something.

They made this change because they were afraid the constitution would be rejected. But now it may be counterproductive: they made the Sunnis so furious that maybe more of them will vote no.

He wrote his opinions to try to find a compromise, so all sides are now studying it.

We should not be with one side or the other, but somewhere in the middle.

Settling these differences is not an easy matter and it cannot be done quickly.