It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.

In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions.

A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.

A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.

I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.

For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

I love my country more than anything else.

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

My doctors say I am very healthy.

Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?

I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.

Peace is important for Israel.

Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government.

Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.

I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.

I know I'm unpopular.

Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.

I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.

Merkel is an amazing woman, very experienced in international politics.

Politicians are strong to the extent that they are ready to take serious decisions and fight for it.

A bloc of states is emerging that understands that they may have been wrong to think that Israel is the world's greatest problem.

Saudi Arabia is the country that in the end will determine the ability of the Arabs to reach a compromise with Israel.

There is no doubt that there is a very strange phenomenon called the 'State Comptroller.'

When armed people from Hamas and armed people from Fatah are standing opposite each other, there is more likely to be a confrontation amongst them.

It's a problem sometimes when you speak to journalists. They quote you, and then they read what they wrote, and then they even explain it. It's dangerous.

I want to separate from the Palestinians. I want them to have their independent, separate state on a contiguous territory, and I want Israel to exist, of course, as a Jewish state in its own territory, as an independent state in its own territory. The Palestinian state, the Israeli state, separate. This is my dream.

The days that Israel was separated from Europe are gone.

For me, Arik Sharon - I remember his courage and inspiration. I want to remember him the way he really was, not as an aging 80-year-old man living in bed helpless and unconscious.

The fundamental interest - long-range strategic interest - of the state of Israel is that we will have the international bodies and primarily the United Nations recognize the two-state solution, so that there will never be any doubt as to the right of Israel to have its own Jewish independent state.

I don't understand this pathetic need for luxuries.

I don't expect to be coddled, but I'm also a human being.

What do you prefer? A prime minister obsessed with being popular, or a prime minister who does the job?

Israel has the power to protect itself and its citizens.

There is no need to get caught up in any apocalyptic prophecies that have no basis in reality.

There is always a human being behind the titles and the status.

I've been mayor of the city of Jerusalem, which is perhaps, in some ways, more complex and more difficult than a ministerial position.

We are the greatest experts in the world in criticizing our country, but no one loves his country more than the Israelis. No one.

Arafat is the greatest instigator of terror.

The situation of any leader in the Middle East is not easy.

Abu Mazen has got to do only one thing: to fight terror. That's what he needs to do.

I'm not saying it was wrong to intervene in Kosovo.

I can tell you that if I'd had an opportunity to meet with King Abdullah of the Saudis - which I have not - he would be very surprised to hear what I have to say.