Former prime minister of israel Quotes

We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.

Put three Zionists in a room and they will form four political parties.

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished.

Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.

Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?

We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want that we will be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies.

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics.

.. There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.

So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.

I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.

Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian ones.

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

I dont know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.

The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.

Water is the blood in our veins.

In view of the fourteen incidents of sabotage and infiltration perpetrated in the past month alone, Israel may have no other choice but to adopt suitable countermeasures against the focal points of sabotage. Israel will continue to take action to prevent any and all attempts to perpetrate sabotage within her territory. There will be no immunity for any state which aids or abets such acts.

Israel wants to make it clear to the government of Egypt that it has no aggressive intentions whatsoever against any Arab state at all

Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.

A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.

A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.

Every prime minister... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?

How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.

I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel.

Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.

I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.

I love my country more than anything else.

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

Arabs respect only the language of force.

An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.

When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.

When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.

In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions.

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

Peace is important for Israel.

Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.

Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.

I know I'm unpopular.

I sometimes feel tired. But there are so many reasons for being tired.

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.

I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.