Ehud Barak Quotes

But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.

Until the wolf shall lay with lamb, we'd better be the wolves.

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

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

The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force.

We want peace, but not at any price.

The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace'... A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with.

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

At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of brotherhood should go out from here.

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

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

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 want to study, to write to live and have a good time.

But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us — the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us.

I don't feel opportunistic ever, in anything.

The Israel legendary foreign minister, Abba Eban, used to say that the Palestinians had never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Leadership can change its mind leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced.

The Labor party under my leadership is working to bring the Israeli people together from all nationalities in the spirit of the scroll of independence.

Israel is the strongest nation in the Middle East, but we have to apply our strength wisely.

Israel always has a special filter to look at things, and that is the attitude toward Jews.

If I were a Palestinian at the right age, I would have joined one of the terrorist organizations at a certain stage.