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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know I've never been a man minister.
Golda Meir
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Golda Meir
Age: 80 †
Born: 1898
Born: May 3
Died: 1978
Died: December 8
Former Prime Minister Of Israel
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Golda Meyerson
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The dog that trots about finds a bone.
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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.
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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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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You can't improve on saying nothing.
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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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Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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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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Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?.. the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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