Israeli Quotes

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

We want peace, but not at any price.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.

Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonistic than Ehud Olmert, or Yitzhak Rabin or Shimon Peres.

I don't feel opportunistic ever, in anything.

I don't do anything to impress anyone, quite successfully I can tell you.

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.