Shimon Peres
From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination.Collection: Dream
You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.Collection: Ideas
It's a morality that keeps humans human.Collection: Morality
Without freedom you cannot have real peace.Collection: Real
President Abbas and myself, we are the ones who signed the Oslo agreement, so we really know each other, not just theoretically.Collection: Agreement
Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians.Collection: Religious
I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.Collection: Country
I don't think for example that the Indians look at [what is right and what is wrong] that way [the Palestinians do]. There are a billion, 200 million people in that part of the world. Why? They suffer from terror. People that do not suffer from it don't understand what I'm talking about, you know?Collection: Thinking
He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.Collection: Teacher
Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.Collection: Justice
Hamas married the Iranians. It was their choice. They are the same family.Collection: Choices
I cannot go to elections with an open stomach. If you want to negotiate we have to conclude it before the elections. I cannot just start the negotiations [with Palestinians] saying we are ready to do this and that and not having any reply.Collection: Want
Terrorists and murderers are so dangerous. We shouldn't fall victim to believe that they are immune.Collection: Believe
Some experts advise what to do in accordance with the past, but the past flew away, and we have to reorient ourselves in the face of new dangers.Collection: Past
We have to be reasonable people.Collection: People
I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane.Collection: Giving
Governments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future.Collection: Government
The Middle East is replete with both new and old threats. One should not underestimate these threats, but not be alarmed by them either. Israel is stronger today than ever.Collection: Israel
Germany and Israel should dream together for a Middle East in which all the countries are willing to exchange the dispute of the parents with peace for their children.Collection: Dream
For many years the stakes were clear. There were the Arabs attacking us and us defending ourselves, so basically there were no real problems [between the United States and Israel]. Now there are many small cells, and each of them can destroy on their own. Some can arrive at New York and kill thousands of people.Collection: New York
I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms you do not use ballots, and public opinion is unimportant, and they shoot at their opponents.Collection: Stronger
We had a lot of support - don't give me "the world", just the televisions. In America we enjoy support,China is neutral, India is for, in Europe they're divided.Collection: Europe
We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.Collection: Law
Most of the Palestinians don't understand what they're doing... Politically, people can say what they want. The problem is not political, but religious.Collection: Religious
[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs.Collection: Rifles
In any democratic country you have more than one view.Collection: Country
In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.Collection: War
Today, Israel is stronger than ever. Israel has defensive tools of its own - those developed in the past and those developed today and those that will be developed tomorrow.Collection: Past
[Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy is limited to one day in four years.Collection: Thinking
I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.Collection: Iran
The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.Collection: Thinking
Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here?Collection: Ocean
If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.Collection: Israel
Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us.Collection: War
Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government. I don't need the government.Collection: Thinking
Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.Collection: Mean
Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.Collection: Country
And this would normalize the existence of the Israeli and the Jew: a majority of Jews in the Land of Israel and a majority of Israelis among the Jewish People.Collection: Israel
I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.Collection: Moving
Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)Collection: Men
In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.Collection: Media
Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.Collection: Government
We have to take care about nature as much as nature is taking care about us. Nature is very kind with us. And if you want to enjoy the gifts of nature and the promises of nature, we have to defer to nature and its needs, its rules, its norms.Collection: Promise
We are the only country who is an ally of the United States that never asked for American soldiers.Collection: Country
Polls are like perfume-nice to smell, dangerous to swallow.Collection: Nice
Democracy wants to win by reason, not by arms or by any other material damage, because, look, I don't have to remind you that I am totally for peace. It is my greatest dream. It was and will remain so.Collection: Dream
The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science and information are the potential friends of all nations. Classical diplomacy and strategy were aimed at identifying enemies and confronting them. Now they have to identify dangers, global or local, and tackle them before they become disasters.Collection: Religious
The history of Israel is divided into two parts. One, under attack that we have had to defend ourselves. When you defend yourself your thinking is totally different from when you want to make peace. So under attack you behave like if you want a hawk, when peace comes you become a dove.Collection: Thinking
I am leaving the office but am not leaving the battle for peace.Collection: Office