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We have to stand together against terror and the reasons for terrorism, which are poverty and ignorance.
Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.
Governments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future.
Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young.
I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.
The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.
In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.
I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.
A politician and a government should be judged by one way only: on the record of what you do or did, not on what you say.
If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.
When I was a child, Israel was a legend more than a reality. She emerged from a dream, and today she has surpassed that dream.
Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.
President Abbas and myself, we are the ones who signed the Oslo agreement, so we really know each other, not just theoretically.
Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here?
One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.
We proved that the aggressors do not necessarily emerge as the victors, but we learned that the victors do not necessarily win peace.
When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.
In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.
Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government. I don't need the government.
Some experts advise what to do in accordance with the past, but the past flew away, and we have to reorient ourselves in the face of new dangers.
When I look at the record of President Obama concerning the major issue security I think it's a highly satisfactory record from Israeli point of view.
We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.
Most of the Palestinians don't understand what they're doing... Politically, people can say what they want. The problem is not political, but religious.
I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.
When it becomes a bloody reality, we have to come together and look at what can be done to return to the order of peace, ... There is no alternative to it.
[Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy is limited to one day in four years.
Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.
And this would normalize the existence of the Israeli and the Jew: a majority of Jews in the Land of Israel and a majority of Israelis among the Jewish People.
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.
The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
We had a lot of support - don't give me "the world", just the televisions. In America we enjoy support,China is neutral, India is for, in Europe they're divided.
Today, the people are governing the governments. And when they begin to talk to each other, they are surprised, they can be friends. Why should we hate each other?
Germany and Israel should dream together for a Middle East in which all the countries are willing to exchange the dispute of the parents with peace for their children.
It is not rifles but people who triumph, and the conclusion from all the wars is that we need better people, not better rifles - to win wars, and mainly to avoid them.
Israel has its attractions. It's the most dramatic country in the world. Everybody's engaged. Everybody argues. When I leave Israel, I get a little bit bored, you know?
Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.
The Middle East is replete with both new and old threats. One should not underestimate these threats, but not be alarmed by them either. Israel is stronger today than ever.
Today, Israel is stronger than ever. Israel has defensive tools of its own - those developed in the past and those developed today and those that will be developed tomorrow.
From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination.
The signing of the Israel-PLO accord is more than a political milestone. It is a transformative event which touches every Jewish family - physically, emotionally, spiritually.
A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.
We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.
For 60 years, I was the most controversial figure in the country, and suddenly, I'm the most popular man in the land. Truth be told, I don't know when I was happier: then or now.
Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.
If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out.
Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who stood by throughout the terror attack that took place in Burgas last July.
Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.
When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.