作為總統， 一些他的公開評論贏得了很多評論家，極大然則沒有損壞他的公開支持。 Among his notorious quotes (some of their punch is lost in translation from Hebrew..):
"[Together] we ate a few good things, and drank a few good things..." (In his Eulogy of Yitzhak Rabin during the funeral)
"Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?" (on a phone conversation to Alice Miller, a female soldier who launched a successful high court appeal against the Israeli Air Force, compelling it to open its pilot's course to women in 1994)
"I like a man who wants to be a man, and a woman who wants to be a woman" (Regarding Homosexuals)
"Now you'll be able to aim better". (Jocularly, while visiting a wounded soldier, who lost an eye)
"45 years I am married and not a time I dreamed of slapping Reuma (Ezer Weizman's wife)" (meeting in a shelter for violence hurt women).
