There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
GOLDA MEIRMen who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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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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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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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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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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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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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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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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