We can change the face of the map and create a broken rift in the new structure of life. [Speech at opening of trilateral talks at the Dead Sea Hotel in Jordan, July 28, 1994]
The great thing is to divorce ourselves from the world of yesterday, and recognize the world of today, and we're not even speaking of the world of tomorrow. [Jerusalem Post International Edition, August 16, 1994]
I believe that we are now flying with a new wind and we are moving with a new current, and we politicians can hardly stop it... [Speech at University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Gazette, November 1994, p. 16]
The old enemies have disappeared or will disappear, since they don't have a future. [Pennsylvania Gazette,, November 1994, p. 16]
The change occurring is a total departure from whatever we have known in history. It is the end, shall I say, of the hunting season in history, the beginning of a creating season in our lifetime. [Pennsylvania Gazette, November 1994, p. 16]
What we are doing over those days and weeks ... is not a normal political or economic enterprise. [Speech on initialling agreement with the PLO to extend autonomy throughout much of the West Bank, September 24, 1995]
[Referring to ceremony on White House lawn] I had already gone beyond this ceremony to the next step; how to build a new Middle East.... The accord in Oslo and the ceremony in Washington were but a stepping stone from which to leap, higher and farther than ever before. [Shimon Peres, The New Middle East, Henry Holt & Co., 1993, p. 32]