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

If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.

I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing.

In any democratic country you have more than one view.

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.

When it becomes a bloody reality, we have to come together and look at what can be done to return to the order of peace, ... There is no alternative to it.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.