How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIRBeing seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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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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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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