Quotes from Benjamin Netanyahu

President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve.

We're willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our neighbours, but we're entitled to our own country where Jews from around the world can come here, just as Palestinians from around the world can come to the Palestinian state.

Both peoples, both nations, deserve a nation-state of their own. Palestinians, if they wish so, will go to the Palestinian state; Jews, if they so wish, can go to the Jewish state. And we'll have to have security and demilitarization agreements between us.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.

In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation...I hereby declare my candidacy.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.

The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.

The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.

Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, "Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let 's just sit down and begin to talk peace."

The people of Israel will have to be convinced that the Palestinians are ready for peace.

While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines...

May God bless the state of Israel and may God bless the United States of America.

The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.

I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we're called 'Jews'? Because we come from Judea.

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.

But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end.

I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts.

The world should be very clear about making sure that Iran does not get nuclear weapons, period.

There's an abiding interest by the United States, by the American people, and by anybody with his eyes set in his head, to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

I'm not consumed with political machinations.