The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that.

Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.

Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.

Julia heard from her mummy that fairies were gentle creatures with singing voices just like the mermaids.

You never know when somebody will pull you to them.

Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.

A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.

My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.

Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly.

The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.