There is not another country that is as sensitive as Israel is to the rights of foreigners.

Destroy and damage infrastructure, public buildings and government buildings. Do not leave them any place from which they can operate to damage Israel. We must be sure that Hamas will be spending many years in rebuilding Gaza and not in attacking Israel.

Democracies take time.

I am not the type of politician who will tell you I am going to act for my own benefit. The answer is no, I will continue to serve the public.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.

There's so many oldies stations with 'Never Ending Story' and 'Too Shy' on their playlists, thank God. People still love the songs.

I don't think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series of things that I had for the first time and thought, 'Where has this been all my life?' One was brie. I mean, oh my God! One was my first soft-shell crabs.