People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.
Avigdor Lieberman
It is to be regretted when internal considerations determine a counterproductive and irresponsible foreign policy.
Even between the best of friends, mistakes and misunderstandings can happen.
Yisrael Beiteinu has no objection to the nonviolent expression of opinion. It is violent speech that forms a clear and present danger that we refuse to tolerate.
It's impossible to impose peace, only to create it.
Israel has the right to demand full allegiance from all its citizens.
I am waiting for the day when the German Bundestag debates the violation of human rights in Saudi Arabia.
In the U.S., those requesting a Green Card must take an oath that they will fulfill the rights and duties of citizenship.
When there is a Palestinian state, it will absorb hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria and Lebanon, because these states will simply expel all of these refugees.
For some, I will always be 'Ivet the Terrible.'
Unfortunately, the international community is not ready to deal with Iran's repeated provocations.
The Swedish government needs to understand that relations in the Middle East are more complicated than a piece of furniture from IKEA that you assemble at home.
I am at peace with all my actions.
A final agreement between Israel and the Palestinians has to be based on a program of exchange of territory and populations.
Friendly governments do not act so as to undermine the national security of their friends, and do not presume to know better than their friends how they should contend with the many challenges they face. The Swedish government would do well to rethink its intention to act in this way towards its friend Israel.
I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.
If, God forbid, a war with Iran breaks out, it will be a nightmare. And we will all be in it, including the Persian Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia. No one will remain unscathed.
I think the biggest problem of the 21st century is how to deal with minorities.
I don't believe in the polls. I try to concentrate on the day of elections.
In 1999, I established my political party.
You cannot stop an Islamist tsunami by building a small island somewhere in the ocean.
Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong.
I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.
Terrorism attacks Jews, but it targets all countries and Western values. Israel is just an hors d'oeuvre.
Any negotiation on the basis of land for peace is a fatal mistake.
When Jews are sacrificed, you have to ask yourself who will be next.
At the end of the day, Americans know that the ones they really can trust, in all the Middle East, it's only Israel.
Any political process has to secure an improvement in the Palestinians' quality of life and education. Attempts to bring about a political arrangement before securing peace to the Israelis and economic improvement for the Palestinians are likely to fail.
We do not ask Israeli Arabs to share in the Zionist dream. We are asking them to accept that Israel is a Jewish state - the only one in the world.
The dividing line for Yisrael Beiteinu is who supports terror and who fights terror.
Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict.
I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.
The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli government's responsibility.
We established Israel as a Jewish country. I want to provide an Israel that is a Jewish, Zionist country.
In Israel politics, four years is like 400 years in Europe.
The threats against Israel are growing.
Without any doubt, the Iranian threat is the biggest threat facing the Jewish people since the Second World War.
Israel never interferes in the domestic issues of any other country. It's not our matter; it's not our policy.
It's their choice, the choice of the people of Gaza, to create the real peace or at least to create conditions of coexistence.
It's impossible always to be with the majority in coalition government, especially when it's a very complicated coalition.
What I really - and I would like to clarify my position, to topple Hamas. And I think it's possible to bring reasonable people, moderate people to take power in Gaza Strip.
We see what Hamas, what kind of this organization, how radicals, their ideology, and we see the consequences every day. You know, the rockets on Israel - and I don't know any other countries that they will accept reality with, every day, rockets on their towns, cities.
Israel's relations with the United States are a cornerstone, and without them, we cannot make our way in the current global climate.
It is hard to find a country friendlier to Israel than Canada these days. No other country in the world has demonstrated such a full understanding of us.
The last thing Israel is interested in is an escalation or some military action against Iran.
Iran can exist without Hamas, but Hamas can't exist without Iran.
Israel won't be secure so long as Hamas is in power, and therefore, we need to come to a decision that we will break the will of Hamas to keep fighting.
Israel's behavior when it comes to Egypt is that of a battered wife. Nothing but apologies.
Iran is the base of an axis of evil which is a problem for all the world.
Israeli Arabs don't have to go. But if they stay, they have to take an oath of allegiance to Israel as a Jewish Zionist state.
