"If we have to choose between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image."

"Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse."

"If I had to choose between being a good Jew and a good Israeli, I would choose to be a good Jew."

"We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs — we have no place to go."

"We don’t rejoice in the death of our enemies. We are sad that we have to kill them."