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" Israel was established as a homeland for the Jewish people and embraced all the Jews who had to leave Arab states. This should be also the true meaning of the future Palestinian state. It should be the answer for the Palestinians wherever they are - those who live in the territories, and those who are being kept as political cards in refugee camps. "

Tzipi Livni

Future

Political

" In general, I don't like formality at all. "

Tzipi Livni

General

Formality

" My responsibility is to ask, 'How can I serve my ideology and my voters?' "

" It's important to be the gatekeeper against dangerous ideas. "

" I know that Israeli soldiers will do everything they can in order to avoid loss of innocent life. "

" It's not enough to speak loudly and confidently. You have to know how to get the world on your side, to accept Israel's ideas of security and defending its interests. Netanyahu does not know how to do this. "

" I prefer jeans to a suit, sneakers to high heels, markets to malls. "

" After I retire, I have my own vision, which is not connected to the state of Israel. It's about me, living near the sea, and maybe writing something about the past. "

Tzipi Livni

Living

Past

" The state of Israel, and a government under me, will make it a strategic objective to topple the Hamas regime in Gaza. The means for doing this should be military, economic, and diplomatic. "

" I have come to fight for peace, and I will not give my hand to those who try to turn the word 'peace' into a dirty one. "

" There is an essential difference between someone who harms a child on purpose and someone who harms a child by accident during combat in civilian territory. "

" Relations between countries are built on values and interests and many other things, but at the end of the day, leaders are also only human beings. "

" The role of a leader is to create a reality and not to be influenced by polls. "

" Sept. 11 was a shock to the whole world. "

" I hate the idea that talking security is Likud and right wing, and talking about peace is left wing and Labor and Kadima. The whole idea is to find a way to bridge: to find a way to have security and peace together. "

" I may have been born in Tel Aviv, but my umbilical cord emerges from the Temple Mount. "

" The fact that a terrorist was killed, and it doesn't matter if it was in Dubai or Gaza, is good news to those fighting terrorism. "

" The last thing that Israel needs is to be part of the internal agenda in the United States between Republicans and Democrats. "

" I want Israel to be a normal state, part of the international community, part of the free world, but unique in terms of the Jewish people. I want both. "

" The Iranians are abusing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to gain more support from radical elements in the region. "

" The wise Jewish Israeli must work with the moderate Muslim and the Christian leader of the free world against the crazy Muslims. "

" Everybody wants to live in peace. "

" I believe that democracy is about values before it is about voting. These values must be nurtured within society and integrated into the electoral process itself. "

" The Palestinian conflict is the glass ceiling of Israel's economy. "

" Turkey knows the importance of its ties with Israel; it knows it's in the same moderate camp with Israel, the moderate Palestinians and other Muslim countries, and the threat to Turkey is not from us. "

" Something that truly frustrates me is the impression in Israel that when you are talking about security, you are bold; you are tough: this is what we need against all the enemies that we have. And when someone is talking about peace, you know, it's the naive left wing, soft. "

Tzipi Livni

Tough

Peace

" On the right of Israel to exist and to defend itself, there is no opposition in Israel. "

" Israel's security doctrine is not that Israel must invade every place from which a threat to Israel emanates. "

" Hamas does not represent the national aspirations of the Palestinians. It represents extreme Islamic ideas, which they share with Iran, Hezbollah, and Syria. "

" Israel is part of the free world led by the United States, no matter what. "