Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.

No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.

You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.

Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.

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. They deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalize their own people, don't give freedom of religion.

Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.