Every prime minister... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?

There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian ones.

When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

You must please God and not man with your ministry

Life is like a snowflake—transient, translucent, adventurous, ephemeral, and beautiful.

The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you.

I don't know if anyone can ever really explain why they believe in someone. But I do. I believe in you. I hope that's worth something.

So now we are young still but a better sort of young.

I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.

Leadership is birthed out of anger!