"We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds."

"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."

"Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor."

"Most important, don't do anything you don't want."

"I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal."

"After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life."

"The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands."

"It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective."

"There is no more Palestine. Finished."

"Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood."

"There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."

"The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war."

"It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness."

"We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today."

"To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger."

"I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table."

"It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions."

"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist."

"Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?"

"Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land."

"I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest."

"I have the strength to endure it all."

"Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice."

"We are a small nation, but strong."

"It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying."

"I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer."

"I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home."

"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."

"If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week."

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."