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.
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I don't know why you use a fancy French word like dtente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war.
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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
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Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil
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It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do ... Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
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We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon-no alternative.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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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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We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.
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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
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What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle (On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR)
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world-no ideals.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
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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.
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
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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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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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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.
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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
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...I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom.
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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.
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Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
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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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...I want to see a film, they send the Israeli army reserves to escort me! What kind of life is this?
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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