“As a youth, I was much more of a Zionist. But Israel was very differen...” — Simon Sebag Montefiore Quote

“As a youth, I was much more of a Zionist. But Israel was very different then. Israel's changed, and so have I.”

“A reforming liberal leader in Russia is the Holy Grail of Kremlinology, but the search for one is as misguided and hopeless as that for the relic of the Last Supper.”

“No one can take away the experience of Yeltsin's freedoms, but Russian democracy will never follow Western models: other authoritarian 'controlled democracies' - Turkey, Taiwan, Mexico - ultimately developed into democracies. But it took decades.”

“I don't accept the Zionist idea.”

“You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.”

“I am a Zionist.”