Hamas married the Iranians. It was their choice. They are the same family. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I do not know anybody that is threatening Iran. It is a safe country. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
We have to stand together against terror and the reasons for terrorism, which are poverty and ignorance. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government.… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
When I was a child, Israel was a legend more than a reality. She emerged from a dream, and today she has… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Terrorists and murderers are so dangerous. We shouldn't fall victim to believe that they are immune. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The Middle East is replete with both new and old threats. One should not underestimate these threats, but not be alarmed by… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I don't think for example that the Indians look at [what is right and what is wrong] that way [the Palestinians do].… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
David Ben-Gurion was a mythic figure, the founding father of Israel and a modern-day prophet, but he was also a real man… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The signing of the Israel-PLO accord is more than a political milestone. It is a transformative event which touches every Jewish family… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I've worked with 10 presidents. It's a record. I worked with Republicans and Democrats. All of them when it came to Israel… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“We spoke often of Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement, who argued that the future of the Jewish people depended… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“My greatest hope is that our children, like our forefathers, will continue to plow the historical Jewish furrow in the field of… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
When I look at the record of President Obama concerning the major issue security I think it's a highly satisfactory record from… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
President Abbas and myself, we are the ones who signed the Oslo agreement, so we really know each other, not just theoretically. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
And this would normalize the existence of the Israeli and the Jew: a majority of Jews in the Land of Israel and… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Most of the Palestinians don't understand what they're doing... Politically, people can say what they want. The problem is not political, but… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru"… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I cannot go to elections with an open stomach. If you want to negotiate we have to conclude it before the elections.… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share
I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing… — Shimon Peres Copy Share
I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist? — Shimon Peres Copy Share
I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a… — Shimon Peres Copy Share
In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable. — Shimon Peres Copy Share
For many years the stakes were clear. There were the Arabs attacking us and us defending ourselves, so basically there were no real problems… — Shimon Peres Copy Share
When it becomes a bloody reality, we have to come together and look at what can be done to return to the order of… — Shimon Peres Copy Share
A politician and a government should be judged by one way only: on the record of what you do or did, not on what… — Shimon Peres Copy Share
We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts. — Shimon Peres Copy Share
The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control. — Shimon Peres Copy Share
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… — Shimon Peres Copy Share
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![“I don't think for example that the Indians look at [what is right and what is wrong] that way [the Palestinians do]. There are a billion, 200 million people in that part of the world. Why? They suffer from terror. People that do not suffer from it don't understand what I'm talking about, you know?” quote by Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/206/shimon-peres-1970_billions_i-don-t-think-for-example-that-the-india_2696671.png)
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