Ehud Barak

War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off.

History never repeats itself in the same way.

There is a need to accept a limited disruption of civil liberties in order to penetrate terror.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?

Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.