Quotes by Natan Sharansky

“Its better to have a clear plan -- even if it will mean that he will lose some of the support on the right or the left -- than to have no plan, and as a result constantly to risk (losing) the support of everybody.”

“Terrorists will turn any concession into a weapon against us. It will happen again and again and again.”

“I ask you all to pray for a miracle. We all hope a miracle will happen so Ariel Sharon can come back to his family, to his people.”

“They said they had no preference and that they would not repeat the mistakes of those who tried to interfere with Israel elections in the past.”

“Democracy isnt hocus-pocus; its a process. An election between a terrorist organization that wants to destroy the state of Israel and a corrupt dictatorship that does not care about helping its own people is not democracy. The results of the election were clean but it has nothing to do with democracy.”

“Bibi Netanyahu believes our people are strong. We will be ready for painful concessions but only when and if we have a partner we can live together with, who also wants to live in peace.”

“Its as if nothing is being done, ... The public has been assured that there would be a solution for every family, but not one family here has any idea where they will be a week from now.”

“If the agreement will be based on the transfer of tens of thousands of Jews, if the agreement will be based on concessions on Jerusalem, no doubt this agreement has no chance to win the support of the Israeli people,”

“the times of a communist dictator.”

“It will be very difficult to have such serious discussions or fruitful discussions with the atmosphere of elections because, of course, those decisions will become part of the political issues for the electoral debate,”

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.