Shimon Peres Quotes

It is not important what the other side says or means. What is important are the military capabilities of the other side.

Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.

Israel is the strongest nation in the Middle East, but we have to apply our strength wisely.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

Israel has military capabilities including nuclear weapons, far surpassing any other power in the Middle East, but it's a small country. The rest of the Middle Eastern peoples are Muslim and Israelis are not, so it is hardly in any position to become the leading power.

America is facing some major threats. Cyber warfare, Islamic terror and Russia, does it sound terrible? It sounds like the end of the world.

Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv. There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran's position in the world generally.

No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

No border that touches Israel is always secure.

Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.

I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force.

Many defense experts have predicted that we face no greater threat from a single country than from Iran.

I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.

The Middle East does not follow Las Vegas rules. Whatever happens in the Middle East affects the rest of the world.

Israel is absolutely critical to American national security.

One of the things that we have to keep in mind on Iran is Iran is also a country with ballistic missiles, cyber capabilities.

Security is an underlining interest of Israel.

The Middle East is not part of the world that plays by Las Vegas rules: What happens in the Middle East is not going to stay in the Middle East.

America's real national security interest in the region is protecting our friend Israel.

Israel may be beloved, but for American security, it is not essential.

There's been a significant amount of Israelis who are joining my party because they think that Israel has to have a tough stance in this crazy environment called the Middle East.

On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.

A weak America poses a threat to the future of Israel.

Diplomacy has been exhausted .. Continued instability in the Balkans threatens important U.S. national interests,.

Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world