We can do it. We have to remove the desert from the land, the salt from the water, and the violence from the people. [New Middle East, p. 122]
It is not enough to agree on frontiers and territories. We have to agree on an entirely new Middle East. [Interview on Larry King Live, February 16, 1993]
A Middle East without wars, without enemies, without ballistic missiles, without nuclear warheads. [Remarks upon Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, December 10, 1994]
This should be another Genesis. [Speech at White House on signing Oslo I, September 13, 1994]
It's a new game, it's a new time, it's a new beginning. [New York Times, December 18, 1995]
We know that it is not enough to declare an end to war. We have to try to eradicate the roots of all hostilities. [Address to United Nations General Assembly, September 28, 1993]
(Israel anticipates) A Middle East very much like Scandinavia, like your own region. [Remarks upon acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, December 10, 1994]
What we expect from the Palestinians is to become democratic, to be prosperous, to fight violence and terror. [Speech to 50th Session of the UN General Assembly, October 2, 1995]
(After saying Israel was "going for broke" in the negotiations with Syria) Listen, we have to take a chance. Those who don’t dare are not realists. [Jerusalem Post International Edition January 27, 1996]
By the year 2000, we will overcome Hamas, the [Islamic] Jihad, and terrorism. By then we will bring a comprehensive peace to the Middle East. By then we will establish a just society, with a national income greater than that of England, and greater than that of France. You all know that everything that we say we will do, we will do. [Arutz Sheva News Service, March 26, 1996]