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

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

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

Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.

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. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.

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

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