How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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.
I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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.
I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.
Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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.
There is no such thing as a Palestinian.
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.