Without freedom you cannot have real peace.

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

Our problem is not to submit to the differences but to overcome them.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

And this would normalize the existence of the Israeli and the Jew: a majority of Jews in the Land of Israel and a majority of Israelis among the Jewish People.

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.