For many years the stakes were clear. There were the Arabs attacking us and us defending ourselves, so basically there were no… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation,… — 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
What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Today, Israel is stronger than ever. Israel has defensive tools of its own - those developed in the past and those developed… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original… — 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
The wars we fought were forced upon us. Thanks to the Israel Defense Forces, we won them all, but we did not… — 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
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
Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle… — 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
Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Germany and Israel should dream together for a Middle East in which all the countries are willing to exchange the dispute of… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The history of Israel is divided into two parts. One, under attack that we have had to defend ourselves. When you defend… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Israel has its attractions. It's the most dramatic country in the world. Everybody's engaged. Everybody argues. When I leave Israel, I get… — 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
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
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
I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It… — 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
My family's dream, and my own, was to live in Israel, and our eventual voyage to the port of Jaffa was like… — 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 Image
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 Image
I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist? — 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 heritage, a… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
