We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.

Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.

I don't care what the American people think, I own the congress!

Israel is a wonderful country. It's a beautiful country. It is ours. But it is a country with 10,000 problems that we have to solve and deal.

You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation - to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.

I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him.

People need to know why we, as the Jewish people, have a right to be here. We need to tell people what we are doing here... My tourism guidebook is the Bible.

A rabbi told me that when you have two problems - one near, one not so near - concentrate on the immediate one.

I didn't make a film because I wanted a starring role. I made a film because I wanted to tell a story and I wanted to prove that I could direct.

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

. . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.

I feel like I'm getting to be a better driver every day.

Obedience isn’t a lack of fear. It’s just doing it scared.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.