But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.

I don't feel opportunistic ever, in anything.

I remember my days as a graduate student at Stanford, within any leading university, a very active Israeli support, for Israel, Jews fighting for the cause of Israel. Now you find Israelis, former Israelis, and Arabs, and Jews, fighting for the Palestinian cause. We are somehow losing the moral high ground, and I keep telling our people it's great to deal with propaganda, to activate many ways, to deploy PR firms all around the world.

The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

We want peace, but not at any price.

Geopolitics needs not just rhetoric, not just certain instincts, not just political skillful manipulation; it needs vision and what the Germans call erdung - you have to be connected to the ground always. You cannot float on your wishful thinking and hope that some miracles will become reality.

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.