“Anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state, anyone who is going to evacuate territories today, is simply giving a base for attacks to the radical Islam against Israel.”

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.

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.

I don’t respond to it publicly, because a lot of things are put out there simply for the attention. Things that are meaningful, you don’t need to talk about.

Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.

Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.

These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.

No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.

I can’t have composite characters. I can’t attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies.