Netanyahu must mend fences with Obama.

I won't intervene in Knesset decisions.

All sides must learn to respect one another.

Jerusalem should not tolerate any religious war.

No nation is immune to anti-Semitism and xenophobia.

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

Arik is suffused with a mystical belief about Jerusalem.

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

What happens in one region affects people across the world.

Our enemy is hatred - the hatred inherent in fundamentalism.

I was born to a Likud which had light; there were no shadows.

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

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

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

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

We must remember that Islam is not an enemy, and we have no war with Islam.

Jewish and Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem are interlaced one with the other.

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

United Jerusalem has been and will forever be the capital of the Jewish People.

We can establish a Jewish and democratic state, but the burden of proof is on us.

I pray that we learn to live together. That Jerusalem is one, with law and order.

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

Even if the Right says that Um Al-Fahm should be outside Israel, this is impossible.

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

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

Terror is terror is terror, and it doesn't matter what nationality that terror belongs to.

I won't allow any party to evade the question of which leader they support for prime minister.

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

I am not someone who will cancel plans because of personal danger, because I'm really not afraid.

I don't see any possibility of peace if there won't be open borders between us and our neighbors.

I ask the members of the Knesset to be very strict about maintaining the principles of democracy.

The politicization of the presidency would pose a real threat to the institution and its function.

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

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

I see myself as a former politician, and in that capacity, I say to other politicians, 'Hold back.'

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

It's preferable for the Palestinians to become citizens of the state than for us to divide the country.

When we come to the hospital to give birth, we don't come as a Jew or an Arab; we come as a human being.

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

There is a conflict in the Middle East between two entities, and they're both right, each in their own way.

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

The establishment of Israel was accompanied by much pain and suffering and a real trauma for the Palestinians.

One cannot tell the High Court what to adjudicate. They must judge, and then the legislature must act accordingly.

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

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

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

We are not fighting against the Palestinian people, and we are not at war with Islam. We are fighting against terrorism.

Israel is proud to be Jordan's partner and to stand at Jordan's side in promoting stability and quiet to our entire region.

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

We need a broad government which will make decisions, but not a national unity government, because we are divided from within.

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