Golda Meir

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Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore."	Desires, Honesty, Military
"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel."	Miscellaneous
"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."	Religion, Worrying
"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."	Accomplishment, Achievement
"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)"	Ability, Freedom, Liberty
"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."	Desires, Destiny, Fate
"I don't know why you use a fancy French word like détente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war."	Age, Evil, Knowledge
"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be."	Miscellaneous
"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!"	Time
"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."	Art, Humor, Knowledge
"[The Soviet government] is the most realistic regime in the world-no ideals."	Government, Men
"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."	Argument, Conflict, War
"We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon-no alternative."	Military, War
"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."	Art, Humor, Knowledge
"I must govern the clock not be governed by it."	Government
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."	Miscellaneous
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."	Excellence
"Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing."	Miscellaneous

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