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.

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.