“Hamas is firing at our cities, at our people, firing from these areas, from these homes, from these schools, from mosques, from hospitals. They are actually using them as weapon storage, as command posts and as firing positions, or right next to them.”

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

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

When I get back into the city, it doesn’t matter where you plop me down, I have my friends around me and I feel so blessed.

I love lawyers and bankers, they are my family, but I don’t want to live with them. It doesn’t make a city.

I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple… To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.

Typically we don’t think of cities as being particularly extreme environments

I don’t necessarily notice too much of a change in the sense of the kind of matches that I have in say a Los Angeles as opposed to a New York City.

I’m a small-town guy, and moving to a huge city might be an adjustment.