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

The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don't want to see this turned into some great political football

Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security. You couldn't make this thing up.

The minute Mr. Putin decided to put his military forces in Syria, I went to see him. And I said, "Look, here's what I'm doing. I'm not intervening in Syria. But at the same time, if Syria tries to intervene with us, if Iran tries to use Syria to attack us, we'll stop it.

Israel is doing what any other country would do, and certainly the U.S. would do. If 80 percent of your population were under fire and you had 60 seconds or 90 seconds to get into bomb shelters, if terror tunnels were dug underneath your border in order to come in and explode your kindergartens and massacre your people and kidnap American citizens.

I don't think that anyone should doubt Israel's determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.

We will take whatever action is necessary to protect our people, including against the terror tunnels that they are trying to dig against us.