- A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe only one thing: that by his act he will change the course of history.
- I like all those people, they're nice people. But this is not my style, not my language. This kind of meeting is the modern picture, but I don't belong to it.
- [on his years in the Underground] The best years of my life.
- [on the September 16, 1982 massacre at Sabra and Shatila refugee camps under the Israeli Army watch] Difficult to find a justification for his decision not to make 'any attempt to check whether there was anything in what he heard. You know in those times of the Lebanese war, every day something happened. And from the first glance of it, it seemed like just another detail of what was going on every day. But after 24 hours, it became very clear it was not a normal event.
- [on his second full term in office] Keep things as they are. With our long bitter experience we have to think twice before we do something.
- [on Syria] The dubious honor of being of the most oppressive, tyrannical regimes in the world.
- [on the first Infitada with the Palestinians] Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.
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