Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.

Saving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent.

The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

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

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.

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

I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.