“My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.”

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.

Israel is doing what any other country would do, and certainly the U.S. would do. If 80 percent of your population were under fire and you had 60 seconds or 90 seconds to get into bomb shelters.

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.

The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together.

I think the world should be represented on television and for the longest its been limited.

Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is “His story,” the story of God.

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

A library is a home filled with our stories.

I wish I was the kind who made up stories.