“Direct talks is the only possible way to build trust and to resolve the conditions for a peace perspective between Palestinians and Israelis.”

“We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situation, even when multiculturalism is difficult.”

“A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other's culture without compromising its own.”

“A friendship between Germany and Israel didn't always seem natural.”

“Direct talks is the only possible way to build trust and to resolve the conditions for a peace perspective between Palestinians and Israelis.”

“Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.”

“I believe that our democratic values are also born out of our Jewish faith, a 'love for the stranger,' and equality before the law - these are not foreign values: this is Judaism.”

“There is no, and cannot be, any situation in which we don't respect the law and the judiciary. It is unacceptable to attack the courts; criticism is allowed, but attacks are not. It shakes the basis of our democracy.”

“It seems to me that many of the belligerent Jewish movements that were built upon hatred of Arabs - and I'm not only talking about Lieberman, but within the Likud as well - grew out of the patronizing socialist attitude that said, 'They'll be there, and we'll be here.'”