To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.

You must talk to us as equals, or not talk to us at all.

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.

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

The past is our very being.

In the midst of wanton aggression, we still call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the State, with full and equal citizenship and due representation in its bodies and institutions - provisional or permanent.