“I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.”

I don’t want to govern the Palestinians. I don’t want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.

Intelligence is a critical thing.

You don’t have people chanting ‘Death to America’ in Israel.

Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.

The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

Israel is doing what any other country would do, and certainly the U.S. would do. If 80 percent of your population were under fire and you had 60 seconds or 90 seconds to get into bomb shelters.

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.

The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together.

Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.

Immigrants from Ethiopia and their families are dear to us and Israel is making great efforts to ease their integration in society.

The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

I’m very proud of the fact that Israel is the one country in a very broad radius that – in which Arabs have free and fair elections. That’s sacrosanct. That will never change. I wasn’t trying to suppress a vote.

We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.

We stand together to advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism.

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

I really liked one girl and asked her out 22 times, but she always said no. Finally I sang to her, and she said she’d go out with me.

Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion – as long as it agrees with ours.

If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.

I read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.

Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.