We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? . . . Those who don't know how to weep with …

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.