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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

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

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

— Shimon Peres

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

In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.

— Shimon Peres

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

It's a morality that keeps humans human.

— Shimon Peres

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

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

“The choice the pioneers faced was stark: succeed or starve.”

— Shimon Peres

We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts.

— Shimon Peres

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

— Shimon Peres