Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes (138 Quotes)



    Settlement activities are illegal and destructive to the peace process, ... For the sake of peace, I call upon the Israeli government to stop it immediately.

    What the public wants to know is when will it get a prime minister who stops putting wind in the sails of terrorists and begins to demand things in return for concessions.

    Arafat is not doing a damn thing to stop it, and at the same time, he's going to get diplomatic rewards

    Imagine how unstable the world will be if Iran were to detonate a nuclear device,


    There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.


    What we would like to see is the fulfilling of the commitment to battle terrorism. When we see that, we will adjust our measures accordingly,

    So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.

    We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

    We will say to the victims -- our fathers and mothers who died there 'We remember you. We speak for you,' ... 'In your name we will say to all those who thought they would destroy the Jewish people You did not succeed -- we won.'

    After that, it was just my wife involved, ... He kept postponing the business of paying, ... never gave us a bill. My wife made a mistake, that is all. Let's not make a big deal out of it.

    Arafat accepted Netanyahu's comments that during the course of the week of November 16, following endorsement of the accord by the Cabinet and parliament, Israel will carry out its part without delay,


    If they do it, I cannot tell you how much time we would take, ... The faster they do it, the faster we will redeploy.

    The relations between Egypt and Israel are not at an all-time-low, ... There have been ups and downs in the past. That is the nature of the peace we have.

    But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end.

    He (Ross) made it patently clear that he would not engage the Palestinians on political matters until they assured him and assured us that they would fight terrorism,

    Israel needs to do everything to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear threat against it.

    Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi said Albright had put undue pressure ... to get into the position of being a facilitator rather than being directly involved in trying to make decisions for others.

    This government is not going anywhere. We are not going anywhere. We are staying where the people and history have put us,


    The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

    We want to bring about a breakthrough, ... We also want to bring about an end to the suffering and the conflict between the two peoples.

    comprehensive deal... a package deal in which we can give something and get something.

    Our goal is to be effective, and the only way to be effective is to work with the Israeli government.

    There is no doubt that we have suffered a heavy blow. It is the second time in 100 days that we've been left in disarray after the departure of he who led us.

    That, I think, would pave the way for the resumption of the peace process,

    Today they fired missiles at Israeli planes, tomorrow they'll fire missiles at U.S. planes, British planes, planes from every state.

    I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.

    There were, first of all, those who agreed with his path, but there were others who caved in to the pressures, the baits, the patronage jobs or other things.

    Unfortunately they did not fulfill the promise they made to Prime Minister Rabin to crack down on extremists, ... I'm not as pessimistic as some. I have no illusions we can achieve 100 percent against terror. We do expect 100 percent effort for peace against terrorism.

    If the Knesset does not support this policy, we will go to the people, ... We will go to new elections on an agreed date. ... There is no doubt at all that the overwhelming majority of Israeli citizens want our policy to continue, peace based on reciproci

    We have not decided on building new settlements but we continue to allow the growth of the existing communities and... that will remain our policy,

    If they think this is advancing their cause in Israel or in the United States, I think the opposite happens,

    In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation ... I hereby declare my candidacy.

    The choice is not between what is good and better, but between what is bad and worse,

    I have one responsibility, and that is to protect the security, the lives of my people, ... I will do whatever is necessary, wherever we think it is necessary, at the time we think it is necessary. We don't preclude any possibilities.

    Israel is outside the dispute, and in any case will take care of defending itself if the need arises.

    It's a complete fabrication to link this to any harm to any Islamic sites,

    The truth of the matter is maybe my wife did not have the experience and she did not pay,

    I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.

    He told me that he was about to get a very difficult report by (chief U.N. weapons inspector) Richard Butler on Iraq's failure to fulfill its commitments, and that it apparently would obligate him to act,

    I cannot stop this (the pullout), but I can be at peace with myself. I can say that I cannot be a party to this,

    One thing you have to recognize is that Israel is always portrayed as this great bully against the Palestinians, ... And that is the advantage the Palestinian Authority has against us.

    It is, in fact, the failure of the Palestinian Authority and of Mr. Arafat to keep the pledge that he gave my predecessor, Mr. Rabin, and that is we give them territory, they give us a pledge to fight terrorism,

    I think we agree that those who are on the side of peace must show complete dedication to the fight against terrorism, ... Anything less will simply not do.

    Clinton is also taking tremendous efforts and tremendous pains to assist us in the process of peace with security. And I think both of us see eye to eye on the need to fight terrorism,

    We have information about the planning of additional terrorist attacks, ... If our Palestinian partners value peace as we do, we have to make sure they make immediate efforts.

    We have reached the moment of truth today, ... There is a way to achieve peace and security, but a unilateral withdrawal under fire and with nothing in return is certainly not the way.


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