We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.

[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs.

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

In any democratic country you have more than one view.

In every war, there are always elements of blindness.

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

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.