“I’m very proud to be the prime minister of all of Israel’s citizens, Arabs and Jews alike.”

Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, “Look, we’re in the same city, we’re in the same building, for God’s sake, the U.N. Let ‘s just sit down and begin to talk peace.”

Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world’s most dangerous regime, from developing the world’s most dangerous weapons.

The Israeli aggression on Gaza does not bring peace to Israel. We know that. We want end of occupation.

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 governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors.

Well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.

I am the only candidate capable of delivering these three things as prime minister, and tonight it is clear that I am also the only one capable of drawing support from the whole of the Conservative party.

Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way

Kaczynski appointed a judge to the position of deputy justice minister who had once sentenced current President Bronislaw Komorowski to a prison term.