The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts.

I'm very proud to be the prime minister of all of Israel's citizens, Arabs and Jews alike.

[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it's destructive of the fabric of the relationship

Anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state, anyone who is going to evacuate territories today, is simply giving a base for attacks to the radical Islam against Israel.

There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.

The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don't want to see this turned into some great political football