The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.

The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination.

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs.