"We will have peace with the Arabs only when they love their children more than they hate us."

"I am not interested in being a symbol. I am interested in doing my job."

"I come from a generation where you don’t think of yourself as separate from the Jewish people. You are part of the Jewish people."

"It is not the business of government to make people happy. It is the business of government to make people secure."

"We don’t want to be better than the Arabs. We only want to be ourselves. And that is better than the Arabs."