There’s no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.

Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.

I think it's my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.

I don't want a one-state solution. But I certainly don't want a zero-state solution, a no-state solution, where Israel's very existence would be jeopardized. And that's what the people of Israel overwhelmingly elected me to do.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.

The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian - Palestinian reconciliation.