518 Quotes by Ariel Sharon

There shall be no restrictions on the use of all means to hit the terrorists and the terror organizations, their equipment and their hideouts,

I think there is a heavy U.S. pressure on the Egyptians and the Palestinians on this issue,

I instructed the minister of defense to take all the necessary steps in order to avoid such actions -- those actions against Israel.

I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for journalists and not for popular consumption, but because I have never believed differently or thought differently, from my childhood on. ... I know that we are both inhabitants of the land, and although the state is Jewish, that does not mean that Arabs should not be full citizens in every sense of the word.

The timing the US chose to announce its decision to give Israel the dangerous F-16 jets is really strange. It seems as though the US is telling Israel

Jewish terror ... aimed against innocent Palestinians, out of twisted thinking, aimed at stopping the disengagement.

I have outlined to Gen. Powell the steps I will take if calm is restored in order to ease the economic conditions of the Palestinian population in the Palestinian Authority territories, ... One thing will be clear. Israel will not be negotiating under the pressure of terror and violence.

I am for lasting peace... United, I believe, we can win the battle for peace. But it must be a different peace, one with full recognition of the rights of the Jews in their one and only land: peace with security for generations and peace with a united Jerusalem as the eternal, undivided capital of the Jewish people in the state of Israel forever.

The United States has stood beside us in difficult days and I think it is our duty to help it with whatever we are able to help,