It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
GOLDA MEIRHow does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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 do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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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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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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