It isn’t a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven’t been effective.
I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.
Most important, don’t do anything you don’t want.
I know of nothing more exciting than war.
I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.
It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.
I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.
If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
I don’t think we should be a model family living in a model home.
I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.
I feel I’ve lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.
If we lose this war, I’ll just start another in my wife’s name.
Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.
It lies upon the people’s shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire.
We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.
It’s a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.
In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.
After all, we are not children. It’s time we planned our life.
A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal.