Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes

I fear, my Lords, it is too much the temper of this country to be insensible of the approach of danger, until it comes with accumulated terror upon us.

Reducing future risks requires paying some immediate costs.

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

We are not safe. We are safer than we were, but we are not as safe as we could be.

Be Prepared.

We cannot protect everything, all of the time.

Hope is not a strategy.

Contemporary Americans were so prosperous, so happily distracted by such a richness of vivid entertainments, they were reluctant to have their fun diminished by acknowledging that anything existed with fangs and fierce appetites. If now and then they recognized a wolf, they threw a bone to it and convinced themselves it was a dog.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.

Anything can be justified by security.

Throwing money after security turns out to be a classic example of the law of diminishing marginal utility.

… without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.... Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

When the President is a moralist, he needs a process that will make up for the natural shortcomings of such a style—an inattention to second-step thinking, an allergy to detail, a tendency not to see the point of having dissenters, a habit of allowing certainty to override considerations of risk. It is the National Security Advisor’s responsibility to fill a President’s strategic gaps, not to exacerbate them.

As one who fought in all of Israel's wars, and learned from personal experience that without proper force, we do not have a chance of surviving in this region, which does not show mercy towards the weak, I have also learned from experience that the sword alone cannot decide this bitter dispute in this land

If the Jewish people want to have an independent state, they must always have the sword in one hand.

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have; we cannot gamble away our future.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

My business is to prevent the future.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

We continue to be vigilant.