Quotes from Reuven Rivlin

Conflicts, even just ones, which in the end can come at the expense of the State of Israel, are things that we must be very cautious about and hold back on personally.

The depth of this conflict, which is more than one hundred years old, requires us to find a way to communicate... so that the residents of the Middle East, Jews and Arabs alike, can live not as if they were forced to live together, but rather destined to live together.

All sides must learn to respect one another.

Our enemy is hatred - the hatred inherent in fundamentalism.

To come and say about me that I'm destroying Israel, that I hate Israel, that's a bit insulting.

I won't intervene in Knesset decisions.

All over the Middle East, we face difficult challenges: the ongoing tragedy in Syria, the instability in Iraq, and the jihadist terrorism which dares to speak in the name of Islam, brings so many to seek refuge. The Hashemite Kingdom is facing all these challenges with honor, with dignity, and with great national and human solidarity.

We demand that people don't deny the Holocaust, and we can't ignore the tragedy of another nation.

As a rule, whenever I hear about a demographic threat, it comes first of all from a type of thinking that says the Arabs are a threat. And this leads to thinking of transfer or that they should be killed. I am appalled by this kind of talk.

I know that sometimes politics creates situations in which people want to say particular things for political reasons.

We must remember that Islam is not an enemy, and we have no war with Islam.

Jerusalem is the united capital of Israel. Since 1967, anyone can practice his religion according to his own conscience and complete free will.

When we come to the hospital to give birth, we don't come as a Jew or an Arab; we come as a human being.

The idea that the State of Israel could be democracy only for its Jewish citizens is unconscionable, and we must find a way to address this.

United Jerusalem has been and will forever be the capital of the Jewish People.

Today, there are those who hallucinate that a democratic and Jewish state is only democratic for the Jews.

The establishment of Israel was accompanied by much pain and suffering and a real trauma for the Palestinians.

Israeli society is comprised of four principal tribes growing closer in size.

One cannot tell the High Court what to adjudicate. They must judge, and then the legislature must act accordingly.

As a Jew, even if you were not born in Poland, the very name, Poland, gives rise to a shuddering in your body and a longing in your heart. This country was the breeding ground for the soul of the Jewish nation, and unfortunately, also grounds to the largest Jewish cemetery.

It seems to me that many of the belligerent Jewish movements that were built upon hatred of Arabs - and I'm not only talking about Lieberman, but within the Likud as well - grew out of the patronizing socialist attitude that said, 'They'll be there, and we'll be here.'

There is a conflict in the Middle East between two entities, and they're both right, each in their own way.

There are no short cuts, no detours in the Middle East.

We have always realized, as Israelis and as Jews, that we are not fighting Islam and thus avoided turning the Temple Mount issue into a war of Jews against Muslims.