I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.

Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

During the last 100 years our people have been in a process of building up the country and the nation, of expansion, of getting additional Jews and additional settlements in order to expand the borders here. Let no Jew say that the process has ended. Let no Jew say that we are near the end of the road.

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village.