[Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy is limited to one day in four years.
Shimon PeresIn many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.
Shimon PeresWe are the only country who is an ally of the United States that never asked for American soldiers.
Shimon PeresAnd in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.
Shimon Peres