You don't simply bundle people onto trucks and drive them away...I prefer to advocate a positive policy, to create, in effect, a condition that in a positive way will induce people to leave.

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.

He had learned Lesson One: Let French women tell you what they want.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

Get rich if you're looking for a woman, Get pious if you're looking for a wife

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.

My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.

I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him!