"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. You can't stop the plane, you can't stop the storm, you can't stop time. So one might as well accept it …"

"I don't think there's any difference between a man and a woman in politics, except that a man doesn't have to worry about his hair."

"It is not the business of government to make people happy. It is the business of government to make people secure."

"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never afford."

"We have to be strong, because if we are not strong, we will be destroyed."