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" I know I'm unpopular. "

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" Before I became prime minister, as mayor of Jerusalem, I became world-renowned because of my fight for the unity of Jerusalem. "

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" 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? "

" The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that. "

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" Don't fall in love with everything that you may have read and everything that you may have heard from any political leader, including myself. "

" Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind. "

" Stopping all the violent and hostile actions means ending the smuggling of arms into the Gaza territory. "

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" When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that's how I am going to continue to do in the future. "

" 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. "

" Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security? "

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" As a young politician, I voted against the return of Sinai and peace with Egypt. I was mistaken. "

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" I want to separate from the Palestinians. I want them to have their independent, separate state on a contiguous territory, and I want Israel to exist, of course, as a Jewish state in its own territory, as an independent state in its own territory. The Palestinian state, the Israeli state, separate. This is my dream. "

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