“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.”

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.

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.

Failure is enriching. It’s also important to accept that you’ll make mistakes – it’s how you build your expertise.

How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?

When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

It normally takes decades to build a brand… It’s the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a new truth.

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.

Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth.