How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIRAs President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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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 only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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 Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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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