While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines...

I unequivocally condemn the striking of the soldier from the Ethiopian community and those responsible will be brought to justice but nobody has the right to take the law into their own hands, immigrants from Ethiopia and their families are dear to us and Israel is making great efforts to ease their integration in society.

I'm the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.

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.

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

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.