I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
GOLDA MEIRThis country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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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.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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