Quotes by Golda Meir

The following are quotes from Golda Meir:

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.

Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Don't be so humble - you are not that great.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like dtente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

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.

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

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.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world-no ideals.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon-no alternative.

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.

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)

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

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