Latest Shimon Peres Quotes from Interviews

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• Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government. I don't need the government.

  Shimon Peres

  Thinking, Government, Israel

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Governments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future.

  Shimon Peres

  Government, Company, Goodwill

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.

  Shimon Peres

  Moving, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.

  Shimon Peres

  Government, No Money, Company

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• I do not know anybody that is threatening Iran. It is a safe country.

  Shimon Peres

  Country, Iran, Safe

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• I am leaving the office but am not leaving the battle for peace.

  Shimon Peres

  Office, Leaving, Battle

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• We have to be reasonable people.

  Shimon Peres

  People, Reasonable

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Without freedom you cannot have real peace.

  Shimon Peres

  Real

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Some experts advise what to do in accordance with the past, but the past flew away, and we have to reorient ourselves in the face of new dangers.

  Shimon Peres

  Past, Experts, Faces

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Our problem is not to submit to the differences but to overcome them.

  Shimon Peres

  Differences, Overcoming, Problem

  "Q & A with Israel President Shimon Peres". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

• For many years the stakes were clear. There were the Arabs attacking us and us defending ourselves, so basically there were no real problems [between the United States and Israel]. Now there are many small cells, and each of them can destroy on their own. Some can arrive at New York and kill thousands of people.

  Shimon Peres

  New York, Real, Israel

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• President Abbas and myself, we are the ones who signed the Oslo agreement, so we really know each other, not just theoretically.

  Shimon Peres

  Agreement, President, Oslo

  "Q & A with Israel President Shimon Peres". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

• Democracy wants to win by reason, not by arms or by any other material damage, because, look, I don't have to remind you that I am totally for peace. It is my greatest dream. It was and will remain so.

  Shimon Peres

  Dream, Winning, Democracy

  "Q & A with Israel President Shimon Peres". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

• Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us.

  Shimon Peres

  War, Winning, Church

  "Q & A with Israel President Shimon Peres". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

• The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.

  Shimon Peres

  Thinking, Perception, Trying

  "Q & A with Israel President Shimon Peres". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

• I've worked with 10 presidents. It's a record. I worked with Republicans and Democrats. All of them when it came to Israel were, movingly, friendly. From Truman, who was the first to recognize Israel 11 minutes after the U.N. resolution, to Obama. When it comes to the major issues of security and strategy, we are together, completely.

  Shimon Peres

  Israel, Issues, Friendly

  "Q & A with Israel President Shimon Peres". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

• In any democratic country you have more than one view.

  Shimon Peres

  Country, Views, Democratic

  "Q & A with Israel President Shimon Peres". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

• I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane.

  Shimon Peres

  Giving, President, Consideration

  "Q & A with Israel President Shimon Peres". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

• It's a morality that keeps humans human.

  Shimon Peres

  Morality, Humans

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• We had a lot of support - don't give me "the world", just the televisions. In America we enjoy support,China is neutral, India is for, in Europe they're divided.

  Shimon Peres

  Europe, America, Giving

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

• We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.

  Shimon Peres

  Law, Choices, Doe

  "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au.

• [Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy is limited to one day in four years.

  Shimon Peres

  Thinking, Years, Democracy

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

• [Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs.

  Shimon Peres

  Rifles, Bombs, Hamas

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

• I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms you do not use ballots, and public opinion is unimportant, and they shoot at their opponents.

  Shimon Peres

  Stronger, Weakness, Public Opinion

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

• Hamas married the Iranians. It was their choice. They are the same family.

  Shimon Peres

  Choices, Married, Hamas

  "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au.