As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
GOLDA MEIRFrom Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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