While Yitzhak was alive, he couldn't have had a better supporter than Leah, ... After the assassination, she had to carry the flag, telling his greatness. She did it with such a clarity and honesty.

You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea. (on the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin)

Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take away life because he's the giver of life. And assassination stands against democracy, against civilization, against a civilized life of people. Alas, the situation in Lebanon is very chaotic and many innocent people lost their lives because they have a state within a state, an army within an army and the respect for life is not high enough.

My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.

My family's dream, and my own, was to live in Israel, and our eventual voyage to the port of Jaffa was like making a dream come true. Had it not been for this dream and this voyage, I would probably have perished in the flames, as did so many of my people, among them most of my own family.

For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.