Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.

Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.

In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.

President Abbas and myself, we are the ones who signed the Oslo agreement, so we really know each other, not just theoretically.

One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.