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Golda Meir

How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIR

Death Family Lost Place Return
The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Desert Need Place Water Weapon
It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
GOLDA MEIR

Believe Enough Obstacle Struggle
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
GOLDA MEIR

Deep Pay True Victory War Win
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
GOLDA MEIR

Man Myself Talk Togetherness Woman Worst
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
GOLDA MEIR

Memories Oneself Past Present Try
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
GOLDA MEIR

Government Ideal Reality World
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
GOLDA MEIR

Jew Place Secret Struggle Weapon
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
GOLDA MEIR

Ability Fall Mark Short
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
GOLDA MEIR

Accomplishment Alone Collection Myself
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
GOLDA MEIR

Children Devotion Husband Measurement Ourselves
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Existence Invisble People
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
GOLDA MEIR

Artist Enjoyment Glory Natural Praise Storm
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
GOLDA MEIR

Bloom Growth Happiness Kind Victory
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
GOLDA MEIR

Civilization Compromise Necessary Negotiation Value
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
GOLDA MEIR

Government Management Myself Time

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