Intelligence is a critical thing.

There is a great danger to the world, not only to my country [Israel] but to the United States, to the Middle East, to peace, to all of humanity, from the prospect that such regimes that brutalize its own people, that sponsors terrorism more than any other regime in the world - that this regime acquires atomic bombs is very, very dangerous.

A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.

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

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

Don’t be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn’t turn Iran into a friend of America.

The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.