Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Israeli occupiers should recognize Palestinian rights first.

I know that you want to find a solution that the Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and harmony.

This is intolerable and something Israel will have to address,

Noam Chomsky

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

Etgar Keret

What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.

Jay Leno

President Obama told the Irish people that America will always stand by them, to which Israel laughed.

Josh Earnest

We have marched in lockstep with Israel. We've been side by side with them as they've confronted the Iranian nuclear threat and we'll continue to be. All options do remain on the table. That's something that we've said all along. That continues to be the case.

Kristin Davis

There's such a history, and to be here, and to feel that, is really amazing.

Mike Evans

He who defines the terms, controls the debate.

Gerald R. Ford

The United States ... has been proud of its association with the State of Israel. We shall continue to stand with Israel. We are committed to Israel's survival and security. The United States for a quarter of a century has had an excellent relationship with the State of Israel. We have cooperated in many, many fields - in your security, in the well-being of the Middle East, and in leading what we all hope is a lasting peace throughout the world.

Howard Berman

American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror.

Ian Gillan

I totally ignore people who criticize me for coming to Israel, including whats-his-name [Roger Waters]. If he were to contact me, I would tell him to tell it where the sun don't shine.

Richard Engel

If Israel sees weapons moving toward its border, it acts.

If Israel officially announces its readiness to withdraw from all territories it occupied in 1967. . . then our movement will take a big step toward peace.

If hundreds of Israelis are here to silence Dr. al-Arian, we say, go home,

I can say now that Israel is not responsible for that operation.

Javier Bardem

Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It's such a big mess. You can be on one side or the other. But what's clear is that there's an urgent need for a solution there and that's been dragging on for so long.

Hillary Clinton

In defeating terror, Israel's cause is our cause.

Hillary Clinton

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.

Israel Zangwill

The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.

But if Sharon wants to occupy Gaza, let him come. Israel will pay the price.

Harry Belafonte

I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

Glenn Greenwald

But when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she just recited about Israel and Gaza. During her Senate campaign, for instance, she issued wildly militaristic - and in some cases clearly false - statements about Iran and its nuclear program that would have been comfortable on the pages of The Weekly Standard.

Ariel Sharon

for a better government, for better security for Israeli citizens, for a better peace process.

Lois Capps

Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance.

John F. Kennedy

Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.

John F. Kennedy

We support the security of both Israel and her neighbors.

Martin Buber

In the story of the Creation we read: ". . . And behold, it was very good." But, in the passage where Moses reproves Israel, the verse says: "See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil." Where did the evil come from? Evil too is good. It is the lowest rung of perfect goodness. If you do good deeds, even evil will become good; but if you sin, evil will really become evil.

Pope John Paul II

Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.

Pope Benedict XVI

That the Jews are connected with God in a special way and that God does not allow that bond to fail is entirely obvious. We wait for the instant in which Israel will say yes to Christ, but we know that it has a special mission in history now ... which is significant for the world.

Mike Pence

I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

Moshe Katsav

The Iranian regime gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapons.