The relationship between the Jews and Arabs is necessary to help build a bridge between Israelis and Palestinians.

It pains me to see the gap that exists in the public's consciousness - religious and secular - between the notion of Israel as a Jewish state and as a democratic state.

I believe that our democratic values are also born out of our Jewish faith, a 'love for the stranger,' and equality before the law - these are not foreign values: this is Judaism.

We are one family, and the connection between all Jews, all over the world, is very important to the State of Israel.

In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurion.

Arik is suffused with a mystical belief about Jerusalem.

Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.

Peres came with a worldview. I also came with a worldview that I have not abandoned and that guides me still.

I know that sometimes politics creates situations in which people want to say particular things for political reasons.

We must immediately find the way to come and say to the U.S., 'Despite the difficult differences of opinion between us, there are no closer friends, and no better allies than you to us, and we to you.'

We have many candidates, like in reality television, but we don't really have a leader.

The depth of this conflict, which is more than one hundred years old, requires us to find a way to communicate... so that the residents of the Middle East, Jews and Arabs alike, can live not as if they were forced to live together, but rather destined to live together.

My door will be open to everyone.

Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of a position different to my own.

The president is the face of the State of Israel around the world: not a representative of a specific ideology but of the collective creativity and history of the Jewish people.

Every opinion must be suffered. One must listen to what may be rousing, annoying, even shocking, but it must be done honestly, fairly and with equanimity, respecting the rights of every Member of the Knesset and each faction, guarding the minority in the face of the predatory majority.

A friendship between Germany and Israel didn't always seem natural.

No nation is immune to anti-Semitism and xenophobia.

I hereby swear, in my name and that of all our descendants, that we will never act against the principle of equal rights, and we will never try and force someone from our land.

A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other's culture without compromising its own.

Multiculturalism is a bed of beautiful roses that has some thorns, so we just have to be careful not to get pricked or to prick one another.

It's not for the president to determine the arrangements between Israel and the Palestinians, and the Arab world, but to be the bridge between opinions and to facilitate dialogue and understanding.

The Jewish journey started in the land of Israel, and it always strove to return there against all odds and all limitations.

There is no, and cannot be, any situation in which we don't respect the law and the judiciary. It is unacceptable to attack the courts; criticism is allowed, but attacks are not. It shakes the basis of our democracy.

Israeli society is comprised of four principal tribes growing closer in size.

All sides must learn to respect one another.

The reality is that we only have one person whom the public sees as appropriate to be prime minister, and that's a shame. I think that if there were more, it would be better for everyone, including Netanyahu.

Our enemy is hatred - the hatred inherent in fundamentalism.

We have always realized, as Israelis and as Jews, that we are not fighting Islam and thus avoided turning the Temple Mount issue into a war of Jews against Muslims.

To come and say about me that I'm destroying Israel, that I hate Israel, that's a bit insulting.

The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side.

The Knesset was right to limit the president's tenure to seven years.

It can't be 'occupied territory' if the land is your own.

We must stay focused on the bilateral negotiations between the Palestinians and us.

There is one thing on which Arik will make no concessions: terrorism.

We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situation, even when multiculturalism is difficult.

Everyone needs to understand that we were meant to live together in this country. We have to get to know one another; even if we don't agree, we have to enable each side to express itself.

We cannot keep the Jewish state without being a democratic state.

The Palestinians must understand that this is our home, to which we have returned, and we also have to understand that this is the homeland of all those born to it.

Today, there are those who hallucinate that a democratic and Jewish state is only democratic for the Jews.

Our ideals are under the constant threat of extremism, whether in the form of radical Muslim groups or the emergence of other elements seeking to deny the rights and freedoms of others.

It seems to me that many of the belligerent Jewish movements that were built upon hatred of Arabs - and I'm not only talking about Lieberman, but within the Likud as well - grew out of the patronizing socialist attitude that said, 'They'll be there, and we'll be here.'

Netanyahu must mend fences with Obama.

Disagreements will always occur between us, but we all approach them wanting the best for each and every one of us, for the whole people.

There's no doubt that our hearts are with the residents of Gaza. We and the whole world are unable to get to a situation in which Gaza can be rehabilitated. There needs to be an international initiative with Israel's participation, in order to bring an end to the enmity against us.

Direct talks is the only possible way to build trust and to resolve the conditions for a peace perspective between Palestinians and Israelis.

As a Jew, even if you were not born in Poland, the very name, Poland, gives rise to a shuddering in your body and a longing in your heart. This country was the breeding ground for the soul of the Jewish nation, and unfortunately, also grounds to the largest Jewish cemetery.

There are no short cuts, no detours in the Middle East.

Germany remains among the few countries in Europe to acknowledge, officially and nationally, its responsibility for the crimes it led against our people.

We demand that people don't deny the Holocaust, and we can't ignore the tragedy of another nation.