We, by gaining peace, will also gain freedom. It is a victory for socialism. [Address to Council of the Socialist Internation, Lisbon, October 6, 1993]
Here again I would like to thank the Socialist International. For us it was not necessarily the place where we have had our weddings, but the place where we started our love. And in politics, maybe you need as much love as we have having weddings. I hope that this organization will remain an organization full of love for all people, black and white, men and women, young and old, and will raise the flag of great human hope and optimism. [Meeting, Council of the Socialist International, Lisbon, October 6, 1993]
In technology, we have an advantage over the former Soviet Union, because our technology is more advanced. We have an advantage over the United States, because our prices are less capitalistic. [Remarks before the Knesset Economic Committee on the Arab Boycott, Jerusalem, February 21, 1994]
(Describing his courtship) Her name was Sonia, and she was eventually to become my wife. I sought to impress her by reading to her, sometimes by the light of the moon, selected passages from Marx's Das Kapital. [Battling for Peace, p. 25]