Ehud Barak

We are living in an open world. There is a freedom of speech and, clearly, freedom of speculation.

— Ehud Barak

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

— Ehud Barak

There is a need to accept a limited disruption of civil liberties in order to penetrate terror.

— Ehud Barak

When an army doesn't want to fight, you don't need much experience to win.

— Ehud Barak

Sometimes you have to subordinate strategic considerations to tactical needs.

— Ehud Barak

You can easily justify to anyone about the need to keep supporting Israel. We get very generous support. We need it.

— Ehud Barak

But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything…

— Ehud Barak

Russians in top positions always told me, 'We don't want to deal with our allies the way that the Americans dealt with…

— Ehud Barak

We are talking about a major change in reality that has to come about, ... We are not idiots. If it turns…

— Ehud Barak

Who can guarantee that if we allow the Palestinians to establish a state, we won't find rockets there as well, half a…

— Ehud Barak

Israel fits into the zeitgeist of our era. It is true that there are demographic threats to its existence. That is why…

— Ehud Barak

If you establish a right unity government, you create an effective platform to make... decisions because you have wider support of your…

— Ehud Barak

Ladies and gentlemen, the relevant question is not when Iran will get the bomb. The relevant question is at what stage can…

— Ehud Barak

The Palestinian Authority cannot hold the stick at both ends: to incite violence, to participate in it, and to tell the world…

— Ehud Barak

I believe President Obama means everything he says about sticking to the unprecedented backing of Israel and keeping all options on the…

— Ehud Barak

Israel is much more effective when the Israelis are convinced that we are on the moral high ground: that we are acting…

— Ehud Barak

Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the destruction of an Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad in 1981. This action delayed an Iraqi bomb…

— Ehud Barak

If Israel does not find the way to disengage from the Palestinians, its future might resemble the experience of Belfast or Bosnia…

— Ehud Barak

At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of brotherhood should go out from…

— Ehud Barak

Israel will continue to act proactively to prevent the transfer of heavy missiles or advanced air defense systems from Syria to Hezbollah…

— Ehud Barak

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

— Ehud Barak

When you launch a surgical operation, you must already be well deployed to follow it through with larger forces. That complicates matters:…

— Ehud Barak

I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonistic than Ehud Olmert, or Yitzhak Rabin…

— Ehud Barak

The red line must be drawn on Iran's nuclear enrichment program because these enrichment facilities are the only nuclear installations that we…

— Ehud Barak

I think that Jordan is strong. I think that they will hold on. I believe that they've already opened their parliament and…

— Ehud Barak

The Labor party under my leadership is working to bring the Israeli people together from all nationalities in the spirit of the…

— Ehud Barak