Geopolitics needs not just rhetoric, not just certain instincts, not just political skillful manipulation it needs vision and what the Germans call erdung - you have to be connected to the ground always. You cannot float on your wishful thinking and hope that some miracles will become reality.

Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.

We want peace, but not at any price.

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.

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

Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.

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.

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

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

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

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.

We are talking about a major change in reality that has to come about, ... We are not idiots. If it turns out that this situation where there is no partner (in peace) remains the same, then we will know what to do.

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 Arab leaders, they don't have a love affair with the Palestinians or the Palestinian leadership, but the publics have, and they cannot feel safe in their own chairs if they accept Israel, the mistress, so to speak, to acknowledge her as a main, the Unter den Linden, the main road, as long as we are not moving forward with the Palestinians.

Politics is not about schmoozing, it's about boxing. And you have to enter the arena you have to come close enough that your face would ready the face of the other guy and the price is that he can reach your face.