Nobody's suffering more than the Palestinian people from this whole process. And I would like to see — if we could get some movement from Palestinian leadership — what I'd like to see is a loosening up of some of the restrictions on providing aid directly to the Palestinian people.

Response to a question in Iowa (11 March 2007) in Beaumont, Thomas (11 March 2007), "Iowans get an up-close view of Obama", Des Moines Register/USA Today