Quotes from Ehud Olmert

Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games.

Everything that can strengthen Abu Mazen is favourable.

If the Gaza ceasefire proves stable, Israel will not remain in the Strip.

There is an alliance between Israel and the United States, and it has never been stronger than at the time of George W. Bush.

There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.

The Palestinian Authority is ruled by Hamas, an organization committed to vehement anti-Semitism, the glorification of terror, and the total destruction of Israel.

The State of Israel, in partnership with Project Better Place and Renault-Nissan, is set to become the first country in the world to initiate the mass deployment of electric vehicles.

The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.

My doctors say I am very healthy.

Terrorist groups and their extremist state sponsors cannot be fought with kid gloves and flowery words of persuasion. As the U.S. has displayed in Afghanistan and in Iraq, only a vigilant and determined campaign of confrontation can deter and obstruct them.

Stopping all the violent and hostile actions means ending the smuggling of arms into the Gaza territory.

I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.