Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that.

Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.

Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

The Most Creative Shortcut to Success Is to Reevaluate What Success Means to You.

In a long journey straw waighs.

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

The basis of association and antagonism among countries has changed over time.

Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking.

The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.