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Quotes by Israeli Authors

"The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime."

"That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two."

"I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant."

"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore."

"And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb."

"The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom."

"The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years."

"The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth."

"Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books."

"The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200."

"You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall."

"We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons."

"But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom."

"Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?"

"The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains."

"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it."

"That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes."

"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others."

"The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed."

"I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil."

"I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time."

"We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions."

"We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is."

"The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible."

"So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel."
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