I believe that our democratic values are also born out of our Jewish faith, a 'love for the stranger,' and equality before the law - these are not foreign values: this is Judaism.
We are one family, and the connection between all Jews, all over the world, is very important to the State of Israel.
In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurion.
Arik is suffused with a mystical belief about Jerusalem.
Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.
Peres came with a worldview. I also came with a worldview that I have not abandoned and that guides me still.
I know that sometimes politics creates situations in which people want to say particular things for political reasons.
We must immediately find the way to come and say to the U.S., 'Despite the difficult differences of opinion between us, there are no closer friends, and no better allies than you to us, and we to you.'
We have many candidates, like in reality television, but we don't really have a leader.
The reality is that we only have one person whom the public sees as appropriate to be prime minister, and that's a shame. I think that if there were more, it would be better for everyone, including Netanyahu.
All sides must learn to respect one another.
The depth of this conflict, which is more than one hundred years old, requires us to find a way to communicate... so that the residents of the Middle East, Jews and Arabs alike, can live not as if they were forced to live together, but rather destined to live together.
My door will be open to everyone.
Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of a position different to my own.
The president is the face of the State of Israel around the world: not a representative of a specific ideology but of the collective creativity and history of the Jewish people.
Every opinion must be suffered. One must listen to what may be rousing, annoying, even shocking, but it must be done honestly, fairly and with equanimity, respecting the rights of every Member of the Knesset and each faction, guarding the minority in the face of the predatory majority.
A friendship between Germany and Israel didn't always seem natural.
No nation is immune to anti-Semitism and xenophobia.
I hereby swear, in my name and that of all our descendants, that we will never act against the principle of equal rights, and we will never try and force someone from our land.
The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side.
