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.

For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.

We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel 14.48 km (9 miles) wide again at its center. We can't allow the Palestinians to be a couple of [miles] from [Tel Aviv's] Ben-Gurion Airport in the age of shoulder-fire missiles with the capacity to shoot down jumbo jets. But that doesn't mean we must remain in every corner of the West Bank or in Gaza, where fewer than 10,000 Jews, living next to 1.3 million Palestinians, have been protected by twice as many soldiers.