Golda Meir Quotes

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

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.

You can’t improve on saying nothing.

There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.

The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.

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

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.