My loyalty to my people, to our people, and to Israel comes first and prevents me from saying anything critical of Israel outside Israel… As a Jew I see my role as a melitz yosher, a defender of Israel: I defend even her mistakes… I must identify with whatever Israel does – even with her errors.

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... One person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.