Quotes from Benjamin Netanyahu

If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.

Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.

I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.

The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don't want to see this turned into some great political football

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don't need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.

The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.

To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.

I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.

We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle in Iraq. These events swung American public opinion in our favor

I'm not naturally manipulative.

I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace.

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.

The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.

If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.

I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.

The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work.

The U.S. has a stronger military than Israel, but, but don't short-change Israel, either. Don't short-change them.

I know Donald Trump. I know him very well. And I think his attitude, his support for Israel is clear.

I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.