In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation...I hereby declare my candidacy.

The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.

To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.

If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more ‎violence. If the Jews put ‎down their weapons ‎today, there would be no ‎more Israel'‎

You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

When it comes to Iran and ISIS, the enemy of your enemy is your enemy!

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

I'm the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.

The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.

Death is the force that will create your new life. It is a mechanism of transformation. Welcome it.

The sea is in your eyes. Your face is an eternal summer. Whoever told you otherwise is a fool!

What is love, Mikayel? Isn't it the most irrational of all human emotions? And the one most forbidden?

The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

In the Wu Tzu it says: 'He who would save his life shall lose it, and he who would give up his life shall save it.'