YITZHAK SHAMIR

All of the land of Israel is ours.

Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.

Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.

The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.

We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.

We must never bend too much.

The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.

If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.

In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.

Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.

Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Arab objections. Nor has their fate been any better in Arab states.

Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.

There is a constant effort of the Palestinian terrorist organizations to increase their presence and their forces in Lebanon.

I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.

I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.

The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.

Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.

Stop exposing your children to danger by sending them to throw bombs and stones at soldiers and civilians.

Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.

There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.

Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.

In its Declaration of Independence on May 15, 1948, Israel stretched out its hand in peace to its Arab neighbors, calling for an end to war and bloodshed. In response, seven Arab states invaded Israel. The U.N. resolution that partitioned the country was thus violated and effectively annulled.

When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.