Politics is not about schmoozing, it's about boxing. And you have to enter the arena; you have to come close enough that your face would ready the fa…

- Ehud Barak

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capi…

- Ehud Barak

We are talking about a major change in reality that has to come about, ... We are not idiots. If it turns out that this situation where there is no p…

- Ehud Barak

If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.

- Ehud Barak

We want peace, but not at any price.

- Ehud Barak

The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

- Ehud Barak

Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to…

- Ehud Barak

The Israel legendary foreign minister, Abba Eban, used to say that the Palestinians had never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

- Ehud Barak

Geopolitics needs not just rhetoric, not just certain instincts, not just political skillful manipulation; it needs vision and what the Germans call …

- Ehud Barak