I cannot go to elections with an open stomach. If you want to negotiate we have to conclude it before the elections. I cannot just start the negotiations [with Palestinians] saying we are ready to do this and that and not having any reply.

The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.

In every war, there are always elements of blindness.

Most of the Palestinians don't understand what they're doing... Politically, people can say what they want. The problem is not political, but religious.

When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

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.