Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

I told John Kerry and General Allen, the Americans’ expert, ‘We live here, I live here, I know what we need to ensure the security of Israel’s people.’

This is why, as a prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more thing: Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand. But I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.

Hamas is firing at our cities, at our people, firing from these areas, from these homes, from these schools, from mosques, from hospitals. They are actually using them as weapon storage, as command posts and as firing positions, or right next to them.