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You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.
We can establish a Jewish and democratic state, but the burden of proof is on us.
I pray that we learn to live together. That Jerusalem is one, with law and order.
We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts.
We must stay focused on the bilateral negotiations between the Palestinians and us.
Even if the Right says that Um Al-Fahm should be outside Israel, this is impossible.
I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations.
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!
In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.
Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.
We have many candidates, like in reality television, but we don't really have a leader.
I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
Terror is terror is terror, and it doesn't matter what nationality that terror belongs to.
He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.
I won't allow any party to evade the question of which leader they support for prime minister.
To come and say about me that I'm destroying Israel, that I hate Israel, that's a bit insulting.
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.
The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.
I don't see any possibility of peace if there won't be open borders between us and our neighbors.
I am not someone who will cancel plans because of personal danger, because I'm really not afraid.
I ask the members of the Knesset to be very strict about maintaining the principles of democracy.
We demand that people don't deny the Holocaust, and we can't ignore the tragedy of another nation.
The politicization of the presidency would pose a real threat to the institution and its function.
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?
I see myself as a former politician, and in that capacity, I say to other politicians, 'Hold back.'
The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side.
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.
In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurion.
There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.
It's preferable for the Palestinians to become citizens of the state than for us to divide the country.
I felt that if I could make the world better for the young, that would be the greatest thing we can do.
When we come to the hospital to give birth, we don't come as a Jew or an Arab; we come as a human being.
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.
Today, there are those who hallucinate that a democratic and Jewish state is only democratic for the Jews.
There is a conflict in the Middle East between two entities, and they're both right, each in their own way.
Governments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future.
Peres came with a worldview. I also came with a worldview that I have not abandoned and that guides me still.
The establishment of Israel was accompanied by much pain and suffering and a real trauma for the Palestinians.
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 relationship between the Jews and Arabs is necessary to help build a bridge between Israelis and Palestinians.
One cannot tell the High Court what to adjudicate. They must judge, and then the legislature must act accordingly.
The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.
We are one family, and the connection between all Jews, all over the world, is very important to the State of Israel.