The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation...I hereby declare my candidacy.

Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.

I've been right more than I've been wrong.

Israel produces more conceptual products than any other country.