Shimon Peres Quotes - Page 3

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• I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.

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  Iran, Young Generation, People

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• And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.

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  Thinking, Underdog, England

  "Making History". Interview with Benny Morris, www.tabletmag.com. July 26, 2010.

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

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  Country, Views, Democratic

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

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• They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.

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  Men, Negative Words, Parent

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• [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.

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  Thinking, Years, Democracy

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

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  War, Past, Ideas

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• We have to be reasonable people.

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  People, Reasonable

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Today, Israel is stronger than ever. Israel has defensive tools of its own - those developed in the past and those developed today and those that will be developed tomorrow.

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  Past, Israel, Stronger

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• Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.

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  Country, Thinking, Iran

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.

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  War, Mean, Rights

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Peres, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here?

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  Ocean, Rivers, Should

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• If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.

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  Israel, Nuclear, Bombs

  "Peres: Suspicion over Israeli nukes is good deterrent" by Ronny Sofer, www.ynetnews.com. September 1, 20070.

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

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  Thinking, Perception, Trying

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

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• Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

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  Mean, Desire, Compromise

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• The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator.

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  Jobs, Young Generation, Egypt

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

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  War, Winning, Church

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

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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.

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  Thinking, Government, Israel

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.

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  Israel, Generations, Limited Resources

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Peres, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?

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  Land, Important Choices, Israel

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.

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  Believe, Israel, Delay

  Presidential Medal of Freedom Acceptance Address, delivered 13 June 2012, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

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  Disappointment, Leader, Doubt

  Presidential Medal of Freedom Acceptance Address, delivered 13 June 2012, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

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  Hygiene, Mentor, Literature

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• And this would normalize the existence of the Israeli and the Jew: a majority of Jews in the Land of Israel and a majority of Israelis among the Jewish People.

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  Israel, Land, People

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• 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.

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  Past, Experts, Faces

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

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  Giving, President, Consideration

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

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