“Donald Trump feels very warmly about the Jewish state, about the Jewish people and about Jewish people. There’s no question about that.”

I’m not naturally manipulative.

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

Hamas is simply continuing all its operations. And Israel will not let this terror operation decide when it’s convenient for them and not convenient for them to attack our people.

I don’t think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.

The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it’s destructive of the fabric of the relationship

I don’t know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.

I will go to the UN General Assembly and, in a clear voice, tell the nations of the world the truth about Iran’s terrorist regime, which constitutes the greatest threat to world peace.

I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.

Israel has to accommodate the Palestinian demands and aspirations for ending occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. That is the only answer.

I don’t think you can rely on Iran. I don’t think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington.

If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants.

Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.

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

I’m in a New York state of mind

I do want to state that I have never kissed a girl nor have I touched a girl immorally or with sexual intent

England, where no one has guns: 14 deaths. United States…23,000 deaths from handguns. But – there’s no connection.

I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.

The problem is, we’ve had three generations of Iranians who have come to really hate the United States.

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn’t exist.

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.