Ehud Olmert Quotes
- Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.
- If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in…
- A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.
- A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.
- Every prime minister... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.
- Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now,…
- How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national…
- I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat…
- I dont know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.
- I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.
- I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant…
- I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any…
- I love my country more than anything else.
- There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.
- We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel 14.48 km (9 miles) wide again at…
- Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian ones.
- The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.
- When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km,…
- In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions.
- Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state…