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

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

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

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.