“And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, ‘Thank you, America.” And we’re friends of America, and we’re the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.”

Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories.

Iran is a country that talks about, denies the Holocaust, promises to wipe out Israel, is engaged in terror throughout the world. This is a regime that is giving vent to the worst impulses that you see right now in the Middle East.

Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.

You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They’re trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it.

A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.

I don’t want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution, but for that circumstances have to change.

They’re trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.

The real reason we haven’t had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.

There is an irreplaceable ally. It’s called the United States of America.

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.

Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.

We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

It’s always funny to me when people meet me. They really think I’m from the East coast off top. When they get to talkin’ to me, they go “Oh no, she’s sooooo Southern”

So it’s easy for me to see what it is. People say it’s all about age, but to me, it’s mind over matter.