Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians

Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?

Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today.

I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.

It's utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don't pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it.

There's nothing Israel can do without US support. It can't breathe without US support. The US bankrolls everything, and it's just silly to think that Israel can do anything without the support.

Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

Love is a game of tic-tac-toe, constantly waitingfor the next x or o.

I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.

...grief had no mercy, time limit, or expiration date.

Six o'clock means very little to a three-year-old. It works better to say "after dinner, " or "as soon as the baby takes her morning nap.

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.

It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.