History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

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

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

There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe's past. So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else's land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.

When I say that terrorism is war against civilization, I may be met by the objection that terrorists are often idealists pursuing worthy ultimate aims -- national or regional independence, and so forth. I do not accept this argument. I cannot agree that a terrorist can ever be an idealist, or that the objects sought can ever justify terrorism. The impact of terrorism, not merely on individual nations, but on humanity as a whole, is intrinsically evil, necessarily evil and wholly evil.

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

I'm not consumed with political machinations.