Quotes from Avigdor Lieberman


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I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.


Although my stance on responsible citizenship made sense to many Israelis, the intelligentsia could not, as you say in English, get their heads around it. 'Racist' and 'fascist' were the knee-jerk reactions.


There is no country that has made as many concessions as Israel. Since 1967, we gave up territory that is three times the size of Israel. We showed willingness.


Iran can exist without Hamas, but Hamas can't exist without Iran.


Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong.


Israel has been absent for many years from entire regions in the world.


The last thing Israel is interested in is an escalation or some military action against Iran.


Yisrael Beiteinu is a party that puts on the table all the problems that people are afraid to speak about.


Unfortunately, the international community is not ready to deal with Iran's repeated provocations.


Those who think that through concessions they will gain respect and peace are wrong. It's the other way around; it will lead to more wars.


The threats against Israel are growing.


Terrorism attacks Jews, but it targets all countries and Western values. Israel is just an hors d'oeuvre.


Nothing has come from this whole 'peace industry' except for conferences in five-star hotels and a waste of money.


It's impossible always to be with the majority in coalition government, especially when it's a very complicated coalition.


The dividing line for Yisrael Beiteinu is who supports terror and who fights terror.


We do not ask Israeli Arabs to share in the Zionist dream. We are asking them to accept that Israel is a Jewish state - the only one in the world.


We established Israel as a Jewish country. I want to provide an Israel that is a Jewish, Zionist country.


When Jews are sacrificed, you have to ask yourself who will be next.


Without any doubt, the Iranian threat is the biggest threat facing the Jewish people since the Second World War.


It's their choice, the choice of the people of Gaza, to create the real peace or at least to create conditions of coexistence.