"We reject attempts to create a similarity between the Holocaust and the Armenian allegations. Nothing similar to the Holocaust occurred. It is a tragedy what the Armenians went through but not a genocide Israel should not determine a historical or philosophical position on the Armenian issue. If we have to determine a position, it should be done with great care not to distort the historical realities."

“The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.”

“If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact, not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.”

“The way to make peace is not through governments. It is through people.”

“The borders will be based on 1967, with the required security modifications. If we take a certain percentage of the Palestinian land, we will compensate them with land. We will not rob their land. Sovereignty yes, but no one would threaten this Palestinian state, and therefore the Palestinians also agree that it can be demilitarized. When the threats on Israel would also cease, I hope that Israel could be demilitarized too.”

“If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent — that's good enough.”

“Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.”