“Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man’s initiative.

Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated…to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter.

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its ‘right to exist.’ Israel’s right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved.

Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives

You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way. You can’t be detached and effective.

Israel is not an aviary.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

He’s sharp, he can score and he doesn’t worry about missing.

No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.

Gary Berntsen, head of the CIA in Afghanistan there, he was a field commander. And he has a book out called “Jawbreaker.” And he says we missed an opportunity at Tora Bora to get him.

I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.

My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.

I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.

Without coffee something’s missing

God didn’t miss any of us.