We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return

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.

In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.

This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his country. After all, there is room for only one Prime Minister, but for those who make the desert bloom there is room for hundreds, thousands and even millions. And the destiny of the state is in the hands of the many rather than of a single individual. There are times when an individual feels he should do those things which only can and should be done by the many.

A Jew is anyone who says he is.

After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.