Ariel Sharon People Quotations

Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.

As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role.

I don't think I have accomplished what I still have to accomplish. There is one thing that I would like to do, and that's to bring security and peace to the Jewish people.

For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.

That is all that we want, what people want, what people want in New York, in Washington, in Pittsburgh, in any other place in the United States or in Europe. People want to live peacefully. That's what we want.

I am ready to compromise, but there is one thing I won't compromise on: the safety of the Israeli people.

People need to know why we, as the Jewish people, have a right to be here. We need to tell people what we are doing here... My tourism guidebook is the Bible.

You don't simply bundle people onto trucks and drive them away...I prefer to advocate a positive policy, to create, in effect, a condition that in a positive way will induce people to leave.

I don't care what the American people think, I own the congress!

Security for the Israeli people will lead to measures that will create new and better reality for the Palestinian population.

I am fine. I guess I should have taken a few days off. There are people who are already interested in a replacement? Well, maybe it's too soon. I'm still here, no?

I believe that we can live together with the Palestinians, ... I came here to the holiest place of the Jewish people in order to see what happens here and really to have the feeling of how we need to move forward. There was no provocation here.

The people clearly opted for my plan, ... Political forces must follow the wishes of the electorate.

I saw this bunch of wild people attacking police, border police and soldiers and I said to myself that this was a criminal act, simply that,

do what is necessary to protect the people of Israel.

The moment it became clear to me that the existing political structure was breaking up I reached the conclusion that the best thing for the country is to have elections as quickly as possible, ... If possible, we shall go to the people in February.

Areas that were given to the Palestinians -- there, I think the situation is irreversible and I don't think we have to re-enter. That doesn't mean Israel will not take steps against people who find shelter there.

A country that calls for the destruction of another people cannot be a member of the United Nations.

On behalf of the government and the state of Israel, I would like to express condolences on the passing of Pope John Paul II, and to share in the mourning of millions of Christians and believers in both the state of Israel and around the Christian world. Pope John Paul II was a man of peace and a friend of the Jewish people, who was familiar with the uniqueness of the Jewish people and who worked for an historic reconciliation between the peoples and for the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and the Vatican in late 1993. ...Yesterday, the world lost one of the most important leaders of our generation, whose great contribution to rapprochement and unity between peoples, understanding and tolerance will be with us for many years.

Snap elections, ... Not in May, not in March. If possible, we'll go to the people already in February.

If possible, we shall go to the people in February.

hearts of the American people and the people of Israel are bonded together. We all are holding hands and we all pray together.