Peace is important for Israel.

Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.

I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished.

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

I know I'm unpopular.