I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
[Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception. — 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
I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments. — 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
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
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
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
The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis… — 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
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
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