“If Iran gets nuclear weapons, there will be no diplomacy capable of protecting Israel. If Iran continues to fund and equip Hezbollah, there will be no stability or security for Israel.” (November
2006)
“I oppose a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities because I think it is inadequate. I am for achieving more than a military strike, not less than one. Our goal has to be to replace the current dictatorship. We should begin with a Reaganite strategy of helping organize every dissident group in Iran, dramatically expanding our information campaign into the country, applying diplomatic and economic pressure, but we cannot stop there. We certainly have to be prepared to use military force if necessary but only if these earlier efforts fail.” (September
12, 2006)
“But I think you have a spirit building here almost like Munich in 1938 where the desire to be self-deluding leads people to say things that are patently not possible. Let me just give you one example. There was already a 2,000-man international force on the Lebanon border. It's been there since the late 1970s. It's called the United Nations forces. It failed totally.I see no evidence, and certainly
nothing from Hezbollah or Iran, that
indicates this cease-fire will be anything
except a defeat for the democracies
and a victory for the terrorists and
the dictatorships.” (FOX News Sunday,
August 6, 2006)
“This is an alliance - Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas - and you can't deal with it in isolation.” (July
16, 2006)
“I think there's a deep American agony over the fact that we would like to see a free, safe, prosperous Palestine next to a free, safe, prosperous Israel.” (April 2002)
“I would have thought this time that the Israelis would have gone into Lebanon hard enough to destroy Hezbollah.” (August
17, 2006)
“Let me say, first
of all, I watched with fascination
your interview with the Lebanese advisor
to the prime minister. And what I heard
was a man who's much more afraid of
Syria and of Iran than he is of the
United States and France. And what
he was saying was they're not going
to disarm Hezbollah, they are, in fact,
not going to be able to implement the
cease-fire.” (FOX News Sunday,
August 6, 2006)
