And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They… — 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
