Top 87 Quotes by Ehud Barak

Who can guarantee that if we allow the Palestinians to establish a state, we won't find rockets there as well, half a mile from the airport or 10 miles from Tel Aviv?

I do not believe the efforts of the international community to stop Iran's nuclear program will bear fruit.

I don't think that the Iranians, even if they got the bomb, they're going to drop it immediately on some neighbor. They fully understand what might follow. They're radical, but not total mishuginas.

The red line must be drawn on Iran's nuclear enrichment program because these enrichment facilities are the only nuclear installations that we can definitely see and credibly target.

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.

Yes, the world is short of perfect.

I'm in the government to make sure that if there's an opportunity to make peace, it won't be missed.

I am confident the Obama administration will work professionally with any Israeli government.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

To think that you can - as a Zionist, Jewish independent state at the end of the 20th century - rule over another people for generations without having any consequences - it's ridiculous.