Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes

I don't reject the concept of preemptive war. I'm a mother of five. I have five grandchildren. And I always say: Think of a lioness. Think of a mother bear. You come anywhere near our cubs, you're dead. And so, in terms of any threat to our country, people have to know we'll be there to preemptively strike. But what the president [Bush] did was, on the basis of no real intelligence for an imminent threat to our country, chose to go into a war for reasons that are still unknown to us.

Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.

The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens, whether the threat is a domestic one or from abroad.

On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.

This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law.

It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.

Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess.

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

Government's first responsibility is the safety of its citizens.

I can do whatever is necessary to protect the United States.

There is nothing unbiblical about building a wall and protecting citizens.

We will continue to hit those who threaten us.

There's one job of government and that's to protect its citizens and protect those in law enforcement.

If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven't got them, so we shall fight with what we've got.

We're going to have to make it clear that we don't want to use the kinds of tools that we have. We don't want to engage in a different kind of warfare. But we will defend the citizens of this country.

I would have fought in WW2, so I wasn't a pacifist in the broader sense. I prefer to be a pacifist, but I think there are exceptions and times to defend yourself or your country, but that war wasn't one of them.

The laws of war right now say that we can respond when our country is threatened. That is what international law says.

If anyone comes near you, just scream and run.

I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.

If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there've been horrendous killings of civilians with conventional weapons.

The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

I believe from what I have lately seen that we should be substantially safe were our Citizens Armed, but we have not as many Arms as we have Enemies in the State.