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

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

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

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.

I would say we want to stop the firing of rockets, for sure. But we also want to dismantle the terror - the tunnel - the terror tunnel networks that we have uncovered.

You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.