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
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
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
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
Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
It is not rifles but people who triumph, and the conclusion from all the wars is that we need better people, not… — 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
I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Today, the people are governing the governments. And when they begin to talk to each other, they are surprised, they can be… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With… — 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
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
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
As president, I was more successful; I had more opportunity than as prime minister. Why? I didn't have the power to give… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard… — 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
