We claim that the United States and Europe became so productive that the only thing you can really produce is unemployment. The more productive you are becoming, the more unemployed people you are having. The time has come to export your unemployment. [Speech to Washington Institute for Near East Studies, February 2, 1994]
What we have to do is to economize our policies, and not to politicize our economies, which is so costly and so expensive. Dictatorship, nowadays, is so expensive that only rich countries can afford it. Poor countries can hardly suffer it with an outsized secret service, the censorship, the permanent control, the worries, the suspicion, the narrowness, the closeness, the ignorance. [Remarks to Fourth Business Forum Conference, Jerusalem, February 28, 1994]
Our forefathers were tourist oriented! They built pyramids, holy places. [Speech to Council of the Socialist International, Lisbon, October 6, 1993]
(Denying the Arab charge that Israel wants to dominate the economies of the Middle East) Essentially, for most of the countries in this region, there is no substantive economy only poverty, so there is nothing to dominate. [Speech to Jerusalem Business Conference, October 29, 1995]