“You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.”

“Give peace a chance.”

“Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.”

“I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.”

“A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.”

“We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.”

“Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.”