I do support Israel. I am a staunch supporter of Israel.

And I am a staunch opponent of Netanyahu. He has stayed too long. He has, in my view, undermined Israel’s long-term security.

When people say, "Well, you've got to support Netanyahu if you are pro-Israeli."

I say, "Look, I love America, and I'm really opposed to Donald Trump. Does that make me anti-American? I don't think so."

The Israeli people have to decide who their leaders are.

I hope, like the people of Hungary, they realize that their economy has been undermined, their unity within Israel has been put at risk, and their security and safety are not yet what they need to be, because they have leadership that is not going to—in my view—act in the best interests of Israel and the future of Israel.

Israel itself has lived in a very dangerous neighborhood for a very long time.

It deserves our support separate and apart from Netanyahu.

It's shocking that Trump said nobody told him that Iran might close the Strait of Hormuz.

Every war game I was ever involved in, that was the first thing we assumed Iran would do.

We're in a situation now where we are weak, where we essentially have lost the leverage and initiative that we had.

I know from personal experience how Netanyahu has tried to get every American president to agree to have an open-ended war with Iran.

I had many, many long, hours-long conversations. with him and his war cabinet about this and refusing to go along with a very inchoate desire to do something to Iran with no real end state that could be described sufficiently.

There seems to be some opening here. I've been advocating behind the scenes for this now for several months.

Israel should support this Lebanese government.

There has not been a better Lebanese government since the Syrians and Iranians assassinated Hariri.

See how far you can help them to go to disarm Hezbollah and to create better conditions for a lasting, secure peace between Lebanon and Israel.

I thought that was blasphemy.

As a Christian, I was very offended.

To the pope, you're a good holy man; you don't understand the evil of Iran.

You're miscalculating here, Pope.

They've killed 45,000 of their own people who demanded a better life — shot them down like dogs.

God bless the Catholic Church. In the 1930s you didn't really get Hitler.

To the pope, you really don't get this religious Nazi regime, the Ayatollah and his henchmen; they are evil.

For years, we allowed the Iranian regime to build up its proxy forces on Israel's border. After October 7, we learned our lesson.

We will not allow the Iranian regime to implement its evil plan. We will not allow the Iranian regime to obtain nuclear weapons.

We will not allow it to choke us through its terror proxy states.

Our mission has not yet been completed.

We did not think this mission would be completed immediately as the fighting subsided, but we most certainly planned for our campaign to continue and manifest itself even in the period following the strikes in Tehran.

Our commitment will be fulfilled only when this extremist regime is replaced.