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Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.
Staying in Likud means wasting time in political squabbles rather than acting on behalf of the good of the country.
There is a deep-felt desire among the people to stand firmly together in dealing with the challenges of the future.
Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
I always admired the tolerance of my family - you know, that they tolerated my dissension for the family consensus.
After 1957, Israel had to wait 10 full years for its flag to fly again over that liberated portion of the homeland.
We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return. The old will die and the young will forget,
The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.
Unfortunately, you cannot let your neck be kind of cut as a gesture for your neighbor, even if it's a good neighbor.
You can easily justify to anyone about the need to keep supporting Israel. We get very generous support. We need it.
Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
We have the right to ensure our security, especially when it is possible to reach agreement on a political solution.
Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.
Expressions of disobedience naturally encourage terrorist organizations and motivate them to intensify their actions.
I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.
I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.
Saudi Arabia is the country that in the end will determine the ability of the Arabs to reach a compromise with Israel.
It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
As long as there are no negotiations with the Palestinians, Israel is and will continue to be in a difficult situation.
In Lebanon, there was an agreement not to liquidate Yasser Arafat. In principle, I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him.
Once Iraq becomes a nuclear power, the very decision to go to war against it would become a totally different ball game.
I would never agree to an exclusive Muslim sovereignty over areas that are religiously important to Jews and Christians.
I don't want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there's no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won't die young.
A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
The Goldstone Committee was formed in April of 2009, after I was not prime minister. So it was a new political situation.
I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.
We have to recognize that there is a Palestinian entity, that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority has to run their life.
It is in Israel's interest not to govern the Palestinians but for the Palestinians to govern themselves in their own state.
The framework for peace signed by Egypt and Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem for the peace treaty 98%.
All together, we know for many years that terror is the most dangerous thing for local, regional and international stability.
Terrorists are trained in Syria, and weapons come from Iran and Syria, and I believe that's something that should be stopped.
The great question of our day is whether we, the Jewish people of Israel, can find within us the will to survive as a nation.
Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.
There is an alliance between Israel and the United States, and it has never been stronger than at the time of George W. Bush.
Emerging from embattled and humble beginnings, the Jewish state has exceeded all expectations for its success and prosperity.
Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.
There is a constant effort of the Palestinian terrorist organizations to increase their presence and their forces in Lebanon.
Before I became prime minister, as mayor of Jerusalem, I became world-renowned because of my fight for the unity of Jerusalem.
Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
Political life is like a big wheel: constantly turning. At times you are up, at times down. But always, the wheel keeps moving.
There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided - not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.
I am the last person who would divide Jerusalem. I have said this many times. I don't plan to discuss any division of Jerusalem.
I have always maintained that the only group I belong to consists of my family, my wife Lily, my mother, my sons Omri and Gilad.
I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.
Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war.