Golda Meir quotes

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. (Golda Meir)
Don't be humble... you're not that great.
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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.
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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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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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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. (Golda Meir)
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.
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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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Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
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We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. (Golda Meir)
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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Being seventy is not a sin.
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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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