Benjamin Netanyahu

"I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics."

"Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demilitarized state next to us that recognizes the Jewish State. We're willing to recognize their state, the Palestinian state. But we ask them to recognize the Jewish state."

"Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats."

"Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace."

"The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be."

"There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed."

"We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means."

"Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way."

"You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it."

"You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel."