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

Better to be disliked than pitied.

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.

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

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.

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

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.