In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The Arabs stand to gain from such a development. They want the country to be in a state of perpetual pogrom.... Any further bloodshed [by the Jews] will only bring political advantage to the Arabs and harm us... Our strength is in the defense... and this strength will give us political victory if England and the world will know that we are defending ourselves rather than attacking.

We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew nation for the common good of all.

We must expel Arabs and take their places.

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return

The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.

The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.

In the midst of wanton aggression, we still call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the State, with full and equal citizenship and due representation in its bodies and institutions - provisional or permanent.

It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.