There is a clear contradiction between the call for peace and the firing of Katyusha rockets. It doesn't go together and it can't go together. (New York Times, November 29, 1995]
What is taking place today may be the light at the end of the tunnel we have crossed, and may end the swing of the pendulum which has swayed from the pole of blind hatred stemming from misunderstanding often created by neither of us to the pole of political trust serving permanently the needs common to us all. [Speech at opening of trilateral talks at the Dead Sea Hotel in Jordan, July 28, 1994]
A year ago ... many people thought that we are looking for photo opportunities. Today we can say we have attained not a photo opportunity but a deep and moving change in human experience in the last part of the twentieth century. [Speech at White House after meeting with Clinton and Jordan Crown Prince Hassan, October 3, 1994]
(Reacting to an Arab song, "Zionist, your death is in my hands"): There are those who sing and those who shoot. I'm checking out those who shoot. [Jerusalem Post International Edition, February 3, 1996]
It is not a change in the attitude of the Arabs to Israel that will bring peace to the Middle East, but rather their attitude to war. [Jerusalem Post International Edition, December 8, 1989]
Dictatorships are very expensive on the account of the people. They maintain a secret service that nobody needs; they maintain a censorship that kills initiative; they create an air of suspicion that kills the chance for a person to express himself; they create fears and worries and threats, all totally unnecessary. [Speech to Council of the Socialist International, Lisbon, October 6, 1993]