Yasser Arafat

“It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.”

“Though I am not a chief of state, I must work twice as hard as one because I have to both administer a bureaucracy and run a revolution.”

“Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.”

“The Arabs are looking forward to developing their region, which the long years of war had prevented from finding its true place in today's world, in an atmosphere of democracy, pluralism, an...”

“I would like to congratulate my partners in peace - Mr. Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Mr. Shimon Peres, the Israeli Foreign Minister - on being awarded the Nobel Peace Pri...”

“Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.”

“As long as we have decided to coexist in peace, we must do so on a firm basis that will withstand time and for generations.”

“The Palestinians, whose national cause guards the gates of Arab-Israeli peace, look forward like their Arab brethren to that comprehensive, just, and lasting peace based on 'land for peace'...”

“I call on all the countries of the world, especially the donor countries, to speed up their contributions so that the Palestinian people may overcome their economic and social problems and p...”

“Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.”

“How can I shave in the midst of guerrilla warfare? On battlefields, we have no facilities for shaving, and that was why I first grew my beard.”

“We started the peace process on the basis of land for peace and on the basis of U.N. resolution 242 and 338,1 as well as other international decisions on achieving the legitimate rights of t...”

“We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians wi...”

“I call on Russia and the United States of America, the cosponsors of the peace conference, to help the peace process take bigger steps by contributing to the process and helping to overcome...”

“We totally and absolutely renounce all forms of terrorism.”

“Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.”