“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.”

There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can’t send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.

If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.

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

The Palestinian society is split into two – those who are openly calling for Israel’s destruction like Hamas, and those who are not calling openly for Israel’s destruction but refuse to confront those who do. And that’s the Palestinian authority.

I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, ‘Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.’ I just – I don’t want a peace process, I want a peace result.

Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That’s Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.

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.

Populism is dangerous.

When it comes to Iran and ISIS, the enemy of your enemy is your enemy!

While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines…

Israel produces more conceptual products than any other country.

What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren’t stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.

Israel is very much endangering.

If the world powers are not prepared to insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal is signed, at the very least they should insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal expires.

Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.

The US-Israel partnership transcends politics and it always will

The refinement of the consciousness and of the heart, are considered incidental (or subordinate) things.