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Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.

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Shimon Peres
Age: 93 †
Born: 1923
Born: August 16
Died: 2016
Died: September 28
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President Of Israel
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Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.
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He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.
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Polls are like perfume-nice to smell, dangerous to swallow.
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The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.
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Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us.
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If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
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We had a lot of support - don't give me the world, just the televisions. In America we enjoy support,China is neutral, India is for, in Europe they're divided.
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[Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy is limited to one day in four years.
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The Middle East is replete with both new and old threats. One should not underestimate these threats, but not be alarmed by them either. Israel is stronger today than ever.
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I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane.
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[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs.
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Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.
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The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.
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I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms you do not use ballots, and public opinion is unimportant, and they shoot at their opponents.
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It's a morality that keeps humans human.
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The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.
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I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.
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Hamas married the Iranians. It was their choice. They are the same family.
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