Benjamin Quotes

Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That's why I remember things so well.

Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough.

There is more to knowing than just being correct

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are both human.

I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.

When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

The Bible isn't a choose your own adventure book where everyone can just make up their own meaning.

Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress.

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think theyre fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

When I see the attention movie stars get, it doesn't make me want to be in that position at all.

In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.

Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.

I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.

The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.

I'm not naturally manipulative.

I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.

There is an irreplaceable ally. It's called the United States of America.

[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it's destructive of the fabric of the relationship

The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don't want to see this turned into some great political football

The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.

Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.

We will take whatever action is necessary to protect our people, including against the terror tunnels that they are trying to dig against us.

The people of Israel have come home never to be uprooted again.

The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, "Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let 's just sit down and begin to talk peace."

Hamas is responsible and Hamas should held accountable for civilian deaths.

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

Israel has, enjoys bipartisan support - both Democrats and Republicans - and we extend bipartisan hospitality to both Democrats and Republicans.

Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria.

I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.

Israel produces more conceptual products than any other country.

A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.

The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

Don’t be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn’t turn Iran into a friend of America.

There’s no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.

The US-Israel partnership transcends politics and it always will

The people of Israel will have to be convinced that the Palestinians are ready for peace.

I don't think that anyone should doubt Israel's determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.

I had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran.

We wanted peace and we wanted to come to terms with the Israelis.

Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.

I don't want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution, but for that circumstances have to change.