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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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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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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.
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The dog that trots about finds a bone.
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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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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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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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From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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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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We don't want wars even when we win.
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Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.
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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.
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You can't improve on saying nothing.
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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 Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs we have no place to go.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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