May God bless the state of Israel and may God bless the United States of America.

Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today, we are all Americans. In grief, as in defiance.

You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.

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

I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.

We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.