You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

We are the only country who is an ally of the United States that never asked for American soldiers.

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

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

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

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.