Yitzhak Rabin Quotes

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.

You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance.

We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

We'll fight terror like there's no peace, and make peace like there's no terror.

I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

If you have the same problem for a long time, maybe it's not a problem. Maybe it's a fact.

Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces.

For me, Jerusalem was united, will be under Israel sovereignty, will be the capital of Israel and the heart of the Jewish people.

Peace has no borders.

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.

Peace will be victorious.

We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security.

Enough of blood and tears. Enough!

Peace with Syria would provide more security than a few settlements on the Golan.

I, serial number 30743, Major General Yitzhak Rabin, am a soldier in the army of peace.

You don't make friends with friends. You have got to make friends with your enemies.

Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

I am healthy. I wish all my colleagues to the peace process to be healthy.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

It is my hope that I could be not just a Prime Minister, but a Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs, the first I imagine that we've ever had.

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

I'll continue to carry out whatever we are committed to. Whatever we believe leads us to a permanent solution the way we want it, the way I want it.

Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

We are committed to free access and free practice, to the members of the other two religions, to the holy shrines in Jerusalem. To the Muslims, to the Christians.

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.

The Government chose to give peace a chance. The Government chose to do something to achieve it.

The negotiations must address all aspects, both peace and withdrawal.

I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

It is the duty of the government to guarantee maximum security, and this is not an easy task.

There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

We accept every form or way to talk to the Syrians how to achieve peace.

We have to recognize that there is a Palestinian entity, that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority has to run their life.

I think the fact that we have been focussing on politics quite a lot and the tumult of politics rather than what we should be doing in terms of policy has made, I think, voters quite grumpy.

One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would.

A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for very limited outcomes, and we have got to change that.

Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal.

Syria doesn't want to talk with us on a bilateral basis, only under the auspices of the United States.

I invite President Assad to come to Jerusalem and to speak with me, with our parliament, with whomever he wants to speak in Israel and in the territories among the Palestinians.