I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today, we are all Americans. In grief, as in defiance.

We [Israel people] always blame Moses, that he was our greatest leader and one of the most gifted people in the world. He brought us the moral code and so on, belief in one God, but then he was a bad navigator. He brought us to the only part of the Middle East without any gas, without any oil.

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

The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

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.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.