Explore Quotes by Ehud Barak

Leadership can change its mind; leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced.

It's the role of a government to defend its soldiers and its citizens.

When you launch a surgical operation, you must already be well deployed to follow it through with larger forces. That complicates matters: you need to be ready for a full-fledged campaign on the operational level and have the diplomatic backing lined up as well.

Once Iraq becomes a nuclear power, the very decision to go to war against it would become a totally different ball game.

With the globalization, it's difficult for governments to impose decisions on private companies.

There is no entity in the world that will dare attack Israel with chemical weapons.

The Syrian rebels, weakened by infighting, have also been victims of the growing rift between the U.S. and its closest Arab allies.

Sometimes you have to subordinate strategic considerations to tactical needs.

I'm not afraid of elections. I've won every election I've fought in.

To think that you can - as a Zionist, Jewish independent state at the end of the 20th century - rule over another people for generations without having any consequences - it's ridiculous.

I will not discuss future hypothetical situations.

I do not believe the efforts of the international community to stop Iran's nuclear program will bear fruit.

Hezbollah will support Assad to the end because his continuing hold on power is critical to its own survival.

Toward the Palestinians, Israel can only give. But when dealing with the entire Arab world, Israel can get a lot.

The Islamization process in Arab countries is very disturbing.

I know that I am absolutely reliable. Absolutely.

An independent, strong, thriving and peaceful State of Israel is the vengeance of the dead.

I fought against Palestinians. I saw them.

I am the Israeli leader who met most with Arafat.

History never repeats itself in the same way.

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.