Politics is not about schmoozing, it's about boxing. And you have to enter the arena; you have to come close enough that your face would ready the face of the other guy; and the price is that he can reach your face.

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

Politics is not about schmoozing, it's about boxing. And you have to enter the arena; you have to come close enough that your face would ready the face of the other guy; and the price is that he can reach your face.

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.

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.

At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of brotherhood should go out from here.