We have to be reasonable people.

[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs.

It's a morality that keeps humans human.

For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.

Without freedom you cannot have real peace.

Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

My greatest mistake is that my dreams were too small.

In every war, there are always elements of blindness.

In any democratic country you have more than one view.

Israel's doors are open to collaboration with Bulgaria.

Science doesn't have flags. Science doesn't have borders.

You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar

Polls are like perfume-nice to smell, dangerous to swallow.

I have one weakness. I don't like vacations. I like to work.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

I am leaving the office but am not leaving the battle for peace.

Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose.

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.

Let all of us turn from bullets to ballots, from guns to shovels.

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

Our problem is not to submit to the differences but to overcome them.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

I do not know anybody that is threatening Iran. It is a safe country.

What you can do with relations is greater than what you can do with guns.

Hamas married the Iranians. It was their choice. They are the same family.

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

You can kill a body, but you cannot kill the great and noble idea of peace.

Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.

To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.

I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane.

The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.

You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.

We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts.

I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations.

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us.

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

We are the only country who is an ally of the United States that never asked for American soldiers.

I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.

Terrorists and murderers are so dangerous. We shouldn't fall victim to believe that they are immune.

In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.

I felt that if I could make the world better for the young, that would be the greatest thing we can do.

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