In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions.

I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

I love my country more than anything else.

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.