It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it's still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment?
A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!
Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided - not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
You can't improve on saying nothing.
How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.
It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.
Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
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.
There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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.
We don't want wars even when we win.
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
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