I'm convinced there is a stream of history that even the public polls cannot stop. Suppose we have a majority of people saying we don't like it so we'll stop? [Interview with David Makovsky, Jerusalem Post International Edition, July 16, 1994]
As a protege of David Ben Gurion, I subscribe to his philosophy that "I may not know what the people want; I do know what is good for the people." [Jerusalem Post International Edition, December 23, 1995]
Leadership, in my judgment, means to be elected by the constituencies of yesterday and to represent the constituencies of tomorrow. We have to answer to a constituency that doesn't exist. [Briefing to Foreign Journalists, June 28, 1993]
There are settlers who are extreme, and against them we shall take all the necessary measures: administrative detention, limitation of movement, disarming them all this we shall take, undoubtedly. And the ones who commit any crime will be taken to court. [Meeting with Palestinian Journalists, Jerusalem, March 8, 1994]