I don't feel opportunistic ever, in anything.

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.

Until the wolf shall lay with lamb, we'd better be the wolves.

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'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonistic than Ehud Olmert, or Yitzhak Rabin or Shimon Peres.

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