I never took a bribe. This is the truth, and there is no other.
Merkel is an amazing woman, very experienced in international politics.
The fundamental interest - long-range strategic interest - of the state of Israel is that we will have the international bodies and primarily the United Nations recognize the two-state solution, so that there will never be any doubt as to the right of Israel to have its own Jewish independent state.
There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.
When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.
Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.
Have I made mistakes in my many years of political activity? Of course! I am sorry and regret them.
I always admired the tolerance of my family - you know, that they tolerated my dissension for the family consensus.
How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.
The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.
Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.
When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.
It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.
In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions.
A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.
There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.
I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.
Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?
For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.
I love my country more than anything else.
