How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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Above 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.
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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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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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