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1. At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.
2. The Tower of David is important for Israel’s heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
3. I’m willing to take a polygraph test to prove that I’m happy about Kahlon’s return to politics. He’s a good man, a man who cares. It’s good to have people like that in politics, I have no problem with that.
4. The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere.
5. As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.
6. One of the hardest things is to create hope.
7. Israel can’t be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
8. The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
9. I am a Zionist.
10. Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion.
11. Intellectuals know how to answer the question, ‘What God do I believe in?’ not only through the question of ‘What God do I abhor?’ Intellectuals can also answer the question of ‘What flag do I wave?’ without having to answer the question of ‘What flag do I burn.’
12. People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
13. Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
14. Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
15. My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.
16. Israel’s master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
17. An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of ‘dilemma’ is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.
18. The Israeli media are very important to me. I’ve been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.
19. Politics — when it’s not cynical, it can be a creation.
20. Quite a few people feel uncomfortable when faced with the claim that the Jews are the world’s smartest people. In our politically correct era, one is not expected to argue that one group within humanity has an advantage over all the others.