Our Problem Is Not To Submit To

I've Worked With 10 Presidents. It's A Record. I Worked With Republicans And Democrats. All Of Them When It Came To Israel Were, Movingly, Friendly. From Truman, Who Was The First To Recognize Israel 11 Minutes After The U.n. Resolution, To Obama. When It Comes To The Major Issues Of Security And Strategy, We Are Together, Completely.

It's Better To Be Controversial For The Right Reasons, Than To Be Popular For The Wrong Reasons.

Later On, There Were Some Problems With Our Navy, So He Made Me The Head Of The Navy - All Things That I Hardly Knew Anything About. I Was Basically An Ignorant Young Man.

For Many Years The Stakes Were Clear. There Were The Arabs Attacking Us And Us Defending Ourselves, So Basically There Were No Real Problems [between The United States And Israel]. Now There Are Many Small Cells, And Each Of Them Can Destroy On Their Own. Some Can Arrive At New York And Kill Thousands Of People.

You Know When Civilization Began? With The Invention Of The Mirror.