Golda Meir Quotes
One of the founders of the State of Israel and its 4th prime minister.
(1898 - 1978)
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[The Soviet government] is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.
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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
[Ability]
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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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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?
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Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.
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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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Being seventy is not a sin.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
[Women]
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Don't be humble... you're not that great.
[Business]
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Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom.
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From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror ...
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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.
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How can we return the held territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
[Goals]
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I don't know why you use a fancy French word like détente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
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I have faced difficult problems in the past but nothing like the one I'm faced with now in leading the country.
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