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

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

Every prime minister... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

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.

I dont know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.

I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.

I don't want to block every contact with the Palestinians, I think that would be a mistake, and I think that Abu Mazen has an independent status as democratically elected head of the Palestinian people, and it's important if I will talk with him.