The minute Mr. Putin decided to put his military forces in Syria, I went to see him. And I said, "Look, here's what I'm doing. I'm not intervening in Syria. But at the same time, if Syria tries to intervene with us, if Iran tries to use Syria to attack us, we'll stop it.

No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.

You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.

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

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

I'm not consumed with political machinations.

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.