I believe that our democratic values are also born out of our Jewish faith, a 'love for the stranger, ' and equality before the law - these are not foreign values: this is Judaism.

There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two-state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighboring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.

Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.

Direct talks is the only possible way to build trust and to resolve the conditions for a peace perspective between Palestinians and Israelis.

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

We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situation, even when multiculturalism is difficult.

What you humans need to do is find beauty in the fact that something is naturally the way it is. Perhaps then you wouldn't be so destructive." [Meems says to Ellani]

Why . . . would a penguin be in a piss pot?

The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

You have to be a little bit crazy to run for president.

Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

It's not what happens to you in life that matters; what matters is how you deal with it!