“I’m not consumed with political machinations.”

So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else’s land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.

I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.

The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it’s the only one that makes the other virtues possible.

I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.

No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him — until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands.

There’s no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.

In the frameworks of a peace agreement, a government under my leadership would agree to make real territorial concessions but will not compromise our security borders.

90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks.

The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn’t work.

I know Donald Trump. I know him very well. And I think his attitude, his support for Israel is clear.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

I think they’re timid, they’re afraid to actually stand up to these killers. And I think that they’re afraid, maybe for their own sake, for their own political hides, sometimes for their own physical safety. And they don’t take that necessary plunge.

I’m not intervening in Syria. But at the same time, if Syria tries to intervene with us, if Iran tries to use Syria to attack us, we’ll stop it.

You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.

If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.