It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.

We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew nation for the common good of all.

The law is whatever people determine it to be.

Since I invoke Torah so often, let me state that I don't personally believe in the God it postulates ... I am not religious, nor were the majority of the early builders of Israel believers. Yet their passion for this land stemmed from the Book of Books ... [The Bible is] the single most important book in my life.

The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

We have preserved the Book, and the Book has preserved us.

If the antisemites want to hate, let them hate, and let them go to hell.