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" Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation. "

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" As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers. "

" I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state. "

" Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks. "

" I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it. "

" The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders. "

" Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them. "

" If someone doubts our right to exist - be it on the hills of Umm al-Fahem or in Munich's beer halls, in Gaza's crowded streets or in the thick woods of Babi Yar - it's their problem. Proud states do not break into wails and crawl under the carpet when they discover someone doesn't love them. "

" The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course. "

" Quite a few people feel uncomfortable when faced with the claim that the Jews are the world's smartest people. In our politically correct era, one is not expected to argue that one group within humanity has an advantage over all the others. "

" Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world. "

" Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong. "

" The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council. "

" For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone. "

" Facts cannot be replaced by opinion. "

" The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life. "

" The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength. "

" I do not deal with threats and ultimatums. "

" Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion. "

" One of the hardest things is to create hope. "

" The State of Israel was not established so that the anti-Semites will disappear but, rather, so we can tell them to get lost. "

" There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions. "

" If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you. "

" I am a Zionist. "

" I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the state of Israel: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. In conversions, in budgets, in the eyes of the law. No one can claim ownership over the Jewish God. "

" One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members. "

" When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case. "

" I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos. "

" Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close. "

" Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be able to hurt them just because they're Jewish. This is both a furious and vulnerable message. "