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We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means.

Israel cannot be a democracy if it occupies land of other people.

Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.

Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East.

We cannot keep the Jewish state without being a democratic state.

The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.'

I have a very clear view, which is that if you disagree with the policies of Israel, fine, say so, but that is never a reason to take that out on Jewish communities.

The idea that the State of Israel could be democracy only for its Jewish citizens is unconscionable, and we must find a way to address this.

I have reached a conclusion that when we have to make a choice between greater Israel or a Jewish democratic state - and we have to make this choice, it is inevitable - then my choice is a Jewish democratic country.

You have to show Israel that it's not going to be forced to do things it doesn't want to do and can't do.