Press conference in London (1969), as quoted in A Land of Our Own : An Oral Autobiography (1973) edited by Marie Syrkin, p. 242
Variante: When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.
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“There were no such thing as Palestinians.”
When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.
As quoted in Sunday Times (15 June 1969), also in The Washington Post (16 June 1969)
“In Israel, we read from right to left.”
To Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, who had written her that he considers himself 'an American first, Secretary of State second, and a Jew third'
Source: https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=kOICAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=Golda+Meir+In+Israel,+we+read+from+right+to+left.&source=bl&ots=JVGhSq8aqj&sig=i0y3YiXiGFjO7UPRpBvAP36p6e0&hl=es-419&sa=X&ei=zpOgVJjnDIuVNvJK&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Golda%20Meir%20In%20Israel%2C%20we%20read%20from%20right%20to%20left.&f=false
"Iron Lady of Israeli politics" Thames TV (1970)
On 30th anniversary of the founding of Israel, in International Herald Tribune (11 May 1978)
“Whether Women are better than men, I can say they are certainly no worse.”
Golda Meir Quotes. (n.d.). BrainyQuote.com. Retrieved July 7, 2022.
As quoted in As Good as Golda : The Warmth and Wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister (1970) edited by Israel Shenker and Mary Shenker, p. 28
Contexte: We owe a responsibility not only to those who are in Israel but also to those generations that are no more, to those millions who have died within our lifetime, to Jews all over the world, and to generations of Jews to come. We hate war. 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.”
As quoted in LIFE magazine (3 October 1969), p. 32
Contexte: We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon — no alternative. 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.
Speech to the Knesset, reported in Ner (October 1961)
“[The Soviet government] is the most realistic regime in the world — no ideals.”
Source: https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=WWMHAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA132&dq=%5BThe+Soviet+government%5D+is+the+most+realistic+regime+in+the+world+%E2%80%94+no+ideals.&hl=es-419&sa=X&ei=YpSgVOShKoyogwT9loTIAg&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%5BThe%20Soviet%20government%5D%20is%20the%20most%20realistic%20regime%20in%20the%20world%20%E2%80%94%20no%20ideals.&f=false
“To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.”
When questioned on Israel's future, in The New York Times (12 December 1974)
Fallaci interview (1973)
Source: https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=iFsKDzuRfNkC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=I+have+given+instructions+that+I+be+informed+every+time+one+of+our+soldiers+is+killed,+even+if+it+is+in+the+middle+of+the+night.+When+President+Nasser+leaves+instructions+that+he+is+to+be+awakened+in+the+middle+of+the+night+if+an+Egyptian+soldier+is+killed,+there+will+be+peace.&source=bl&ots=uyEzv-aQ4v&sig=ee9r_1Rchk34xECFV2PoqgnTLYk&hl=es-419&sa=X&ei=_ZOgVNjyBZKDNsT6gbAL&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=I%20have%20given%20instructions%20that%20I%20be%20informed%20every%20time%20one%20of%20our%20soldiers%20is%20killed%2C%20even%20if%20it%20is%20in%20the%20middle%20of%20the%20night.%20When%20President%20Nasser%20leaves%20instructions%20that%20he%20is%20to%20be%20awakened%20in%20the%20middle%20of%20the%20night%20if%20an%20Egyptian%20soldier%20is%20killed%2C%20there%20will%20be%20peace.&f=false
As quoted in Newsweek (19 January 1976)
“It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.”
Source: As quoted in LIFE magazine (3 October 1969), p. 32
“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
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My Life (1975), p. 231
On Soviet actions in Hungary to the UN General Assembly (21 November 1956)
At a dinner honoring West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, as reported in The New York Times (10 June 1973)
Unsourced variants: Moses dragged us for 40 years through the desert to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil.
Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil.
On the suppression of freedom of Jews in the USSR to the World Conference on Soviet Jewry, Brussels, in The New York Times (20 February 1976)
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