I love my country more than anything else.

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.

Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian ones.

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

Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.

Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?

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