I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.

I don't feel opportunistic ever, in anything.

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

Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

The Arab leaders, they don't have a love affair with the Palestinians or the Palestinian leadership, but the publics have, and they cannot feel safe in their own chairs if they accept Israel, the mistress, so to speak, to acknowledge her as a main, the Unter den Linden, the main road, as long as we are not moving forward with the Palestinians.