Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

You know I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

9/11 was a deliberate carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.

The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was it is and will be and will continue to be.

You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel as well as on the region and the international community.

I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.

The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security.

What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.