I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
GOLDA MEIRI must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
GOLDA MEIRThose that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
GOLDA MEIRIt is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
GOLDA MEIRMen are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
GOLDA MEIRBy 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?
GOLDA MEIRBeing seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
GOLDA MEIRFashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
GOLDA MEIRDon’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.
GOLDA MEIRIsrael itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
GOLDA MEIRCan we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
GOLDA MEIRArab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
GOLDA MEIRI 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.
GOLDA MEIRAt 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.
GOLDA MEIRAbove all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
GOLDA MEIRHow can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIRDon’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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