Athens Quote by David Ben-Gurion

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it was they who made it famous.

— Winston Churchill

Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people, and the modern presence there just cements this.

— Erin O'Toole

The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago and through…

— Daniel Pipes

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

— Winston Churchill

Jerusalem is the holiest place for the Jewish people.

— Ariel Sharon

Jerusalem doesn't belong only to Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, but to the world.

— A. B. Yehoshua

In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city,…

— Yitzhak Rabin

For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via…

— Robert Farrar Capon

It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a…

— Bille August

It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.

— St. Jerome

A nation has the capacity to choose its own capital city, and Jerusalem is Israel's capital.

— Mitt Romney

“It is therefore deeply tragic that Jerusalem should have become a bone of contention – with people killing each other by the thousand because…

— Jostein Gaarder