Benjamin Netanyahu quote: "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."

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of American...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago,...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

confident we can overcome the hurdles that face us and continue with the genuine process of seeking ...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

but it is not guaranteed.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Israel is eager to make progress, but we cannot do so alone,
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

We want to see a change of rhetoric and a change of action; a change of words and a change of deeds.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

[Netanyahu reaffirmed his stance Monday.] It is not true that we are lifting the closure, ... We are...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

I'm a proud member of the rabble.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

The roots of the Jewish people are rooted in the land of Beit El. These roots not only will not be u...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

There have been wild and unfounded accusations,
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

a peace in which Israel is brought under attack is not a true peace.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

allowing the creation of an independent terrorist base in Gaza to which arms will flow from Syria , ...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. I...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will re...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

There's no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Isr...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deed...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that ...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citiz...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

In his speech, Sharon made it clear that he has veered to the left and that he will continue his pol...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

We are willing to carry out the agreements we have signed, but we must insist and ensure that the Pa...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

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

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of societ...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

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

If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hi...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Both peoples, both nations, deserve a nation-state of their own. Palestinians, if they wish so, will...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you ...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have ...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demi...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jac...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don&...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

I'm not naturally manipulative.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

There was no one more gracious, considerate and kind; no one more hospitable and generous; no one mo...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

We're not discussing the price of beef...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

unconditionally joined the peace camp.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Regardless of the fact that our relationship with the U.S. is of the first rank of Israel's strategi...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official ...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

I don't see a collapse of America's involvement.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

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

There is an immense housing shortage in Jerusalem,
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Sharon gave and gave and gave, the Palestinians got and got and got, and my question is, what did we...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

What the public wants to know is when will it get a prime minister who stops putting wind in the sai...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

These efforts I believe are clear proof of our intentions and our direction: We want peace!
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

In his speech Sharon has finally clarified that he is turning to the Left and will continue to make ...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

a deal for nothing
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

We lost by a very few votes. There is a very large camp that went against the flow, against the wind...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

There is no longer any meaning to principles and ideology. You can buy anyone. This is not the lesso...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

We're willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our nei...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continuall...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

This government was elected to advance the peace process and achieve real peace, peace with reciproc...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

With the Palestinians, I think we have started to move closer, also on the issue of reciprocity,
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

We're a democratic country, respectful of human rights, that is threatened by wild people who have n...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

They are fomenting many of these demonstrations, and they are not preventing them,
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

So Arafat can no more declare unilaterally what that outcome would be than I could. We could each un...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposi...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want ...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

I'm a proud member of the rabble.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conduc...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

This is disputed land, not Palestinian, or we claim public ownership.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

welcomes the U.S. decision to strike targets of terrorists in Sudan and Afghanistan.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

I will not lose, despite massive brainwashing by the press and its attempt at demoralization,
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

An agreement like that will not bring peace. It will bring the opposite of peace,
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you wa...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do ...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more ‎violence. If the Jews put ‎do...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Sharon's decision to put Israel's security in the hands of the Egyptian army, instead of the IDF, is...
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU

I want to remind you that these elections will be decided by Israeli citizens and not by foreigners ...
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU

We have to break the siege on Jerusalem. There is a battle for Jerusalem. Sharon has frozen the buil...
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU

In the frameworks of a peace agreement, a government under my leadership would agree to make real te...
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU

The public has a mistaken impression that the central committee is corrupt.
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU

“Whoever thinks that they can damage the daily lives of residents of the south, and that they won�...
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU

Peace in return for peace.
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU

The moment of truth is here. I am not willing to collaborate with this process, which endangers the ...
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU

So [the Americans] object, so what? It's Jerusalem! I withstood American pressure, but Sharon surren...
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU

I commit myself to wipe out poverty in Israel within the next three years. We are now in a position ...
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU

In a democracy, a leader is elected to lead according to a certain ideology. He cannot go in the opp...
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU

But that is not a difficult thing to do.
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU

We lost by a very few votes. No doubt we'll win the next chapter.
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
WALTER BENJAMIN

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have th...
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
BENJAMIN JOWETT

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memori...
WALTER BENJAMIN

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
WALTER BENJAMIN

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
WALTER BENJAMIN

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no m...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reas...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the laz...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When in doubt, don't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Lost time is never found again.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in...
BENJAMIN HARRISON

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
OWEN BENJAMIN

I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children'...
OWEN BENJAMIN

To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
OWEN BENJAMIN

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Hunger is the best pickle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The bud of victory is always in the truth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, ac...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house...
BENJAMIN BRITTEN

When you go to work, you are a Christian at your workplace. You're not a broadcaster who happens...
BENJAMIN WATSON

I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up a...
BENJAMIN PERCY

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.
BENJAMIN JOWETT

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
BENJAMIN JOWETT

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of t...
BENJAMIN JOWETT

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become...
BENJAMIN JOWETT

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
BENJAMIN JOWETT

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always ...
BENJAMIN JOWETT

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
BENJAMIN JOWETT

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you...
BENJAMIN JOWETT

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
BENJAMIN JOWETT

Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it wo...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make...
BENJAMIN COHEN

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply t...
BENJAMIN TILLETT

I think, over the time that you're in the league, you learn what your body needs: you learn the ...
BENJAMIN WATSON

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abs...
BENJAMIN WIKER

Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from th...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liber...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessar...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may per...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presiden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowl...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is ri...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

A plural Legislature is as necessary to good Government as a single Executive. It is not enough that...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Dr. FRANKLIN mentioned the case of the Prince of Orange William V, during the late war. An arrangeme...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings w...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my fav...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Never confuse motion with action.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told t...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parli...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orat...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

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.

Benjamin Netanyahu

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