Quotes from Ayelet Shaked

Around us in the Middle East there is total chaos. I'm not willing to give up on my land for this chaos.

Not only someone with epaulets can be defense minister. We're in a democratic country.

I think the people of America just need to listen more to the ministers and MKs from Jewish Home.

Not only generals can be politicians, and not only generals can be defense ministers.

When I was in the army in the Golani troops, I served with Zionist and modern Orthodox guys and I became friends with them.

I have many close friends who are religious Zionists and I think if we can be good friends, work together and serve in the army together, then there is no reason we should not be part of the same party.

We must openly call for the establishment of a Kurdish state that separates Iran from Turkey, one which will be friendly towards Israel.

I work hard and try to combine a demanding career with motherhood.

As the head of a religious party, I am not in favor of civil marriage or the full recognition of non-Orthodox converts in Israel.

The nation state law has nothing controversial.

In the past, we saw European leaders speaking against the Jews. Now, we see them speaking against Israel. It is the same anti-Semitism of blood libels, spreading lies, distorting reality and brainwashing people into hating Israel and the Jews.

Netanyahu wants to make me and my party out as small, lame and uninfluential.

My associates and I always allied with Netanyahu in complicated political maneuvers.

In a unity government, it's very difficult to move anything at all.

In reality it's pretty obvious that all the citizens of Israel have total civil equality.

I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work.

Until I was justice minister, Netanyahu was proud of stopping laws to change the judiciary.

I think that 'Judaizing the Galilee' is not an offensive term. We used to talk like that.

I've had it with those women - women! - who seek to undermine the serious work of women in Israeli politics by describing them as 'attractive and elegant' but utterly vacant.

Of course in a democracy the government and the citizens have to abide by court rulings, even if we don't like them or don't agree with them.

Israel is a Jewish state. It isn't a state of all its nations. That is, equal rights to all citizens but not equal national rights.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the public is entitled to know what the legal views of a Supreme Court candidate are.

The state should say that there is place to maintain the Jewish majority even if it violates rights.

I don't think I can change the fact that the court can cancel a law, but I think the court should only get involved in extreme issues like human rights violations.