Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

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

Governments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future.

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.

To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.