Quotes and Sayings about Israel
"I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: Peace, Israel, Security, Want)
"The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Love, War, Idea, Israel, Pretty, Thinking, World)
"I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Books, Day, Giving, Israel)
"At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Age, Work, Israel, Land)
"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Cities, Israel, Land, Result, Rome)
"Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: American, Harmony)
"Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Israel, Land, Priorities, Security, Water)
"It should be known that Israel is based on treachery."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Israel, Treachery)
"Israel does not care about the international public opinion."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Care, Israel, Opinion, Public, Public opinion)
"It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten."
- Bashar al-Assad
"None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Trust, Israel)
"The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Control, American, Israel, Will)
"You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Power, Countries, Israel)
"Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Disaster, Occupation)
"It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Mistake, Act, Circumstance, Israel)
"We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Israel, Treachery)
"Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Israel)
"Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven."
- Keren Ann
(Related: France, Israel)
"The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him."
- Aharon Appelfeld
(Related: People, Biography, Deep, End, Israel, Metaphor, Writing)
"We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem."
- Yasser Arafat
(Related: Life, Israel, Population, State, Will)
"Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations."
- Yasser Arafat
(Related: Peace, War, Destruction, Generations, Israel, Will)
"Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis."
- Yasser Arafat
(Related: Death, Land, Law)
"It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel."
- Yasser Arafat
(Related: People, Accusations, Israel)
"Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism."
- Nnamdi Azikiwe
(Related: People, Fight, Heroism, Israel, World)
"Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament."
- Shaukat Aziz
(Related: Decision, Israel, Parliament)
"The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel."
- David Baker
(Related: Authority, Israel)
"Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden."
- George Ball
(Related: Garden, Struggle, Wonder)
"Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states."
- George Ball
(Related: America, Israel, states)
"The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying."
- George Ball
(Related: Survival, Israel, Prosperity, Question, Saying, states, United)
"Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation."
- George Ball
(Related: Americans, Doubt, Interest, Israel, Nation, Responsibility)
"Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so."
- George Ball
(Related: Americans, Problems)
"Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear."
- Menachem Begin
(Related: Country, Effect, Israel, World)
"I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community."
- Harry Belafonte
(Related: Community, Israel, Right, State)
"Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place."
- Pope Benedict XVI
(Related: God, People, Christian, Conviction, Israel, Will)
"It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute."
- Howard Berman
(Related: Wrong)
"American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror."
- Howard Berman
(Related: Policy, American, Foreign policy, Israel, Right, Support, Terror)
"I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?"
- Marion Berry
(Related: Israel, Symbol, Washington)
"But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel."
- Theodore Bikel
(Related: Death, Cause, Children, Deed, Difference, Israel)
"Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel."
- Earl Blumenauer
(Related: Friend, Congress, Future, Israel, Opposition, Security, Terror, United)
"We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel."
- John Boehner
(Related: Israel, World)
"The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel."
- John Boehner
(Related: Peace, Commitment, Democracy, Freedom, Israel, Principles, states, Support, United)
"Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments."
- John Boehner
(Related: Aggression, Day, First, Israel, Nation)
"The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel."
- John Boehner
(Related: Peace, Destruction, Israel, Violence, Want)
"This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law."
- John Boehner
(Related: Israel, Law, Nations, Resolution, Right)
"Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received."
- John Boehner
(Related: Aggression, Cities, Soldiers)
"Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake."
- John Boehner
(Related: Day, Existence, Israel)
"The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil."
- Alain de Botton
(Related: War, Conflict, Land, Oil, Respect, Want, Water)
"We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Peace, Friends, Israel, State, Support, Terrorism, Violence, Will, World)
"I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people."
- Tony Campolo
(Related: Time, People, Israel, Justice, State)
"My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians."
- Tony Campolo
(Related: God, Israel, Nation, Theology, Want, Will)
"I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Children, Israel, Security, Treatment)
"The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing."
- George Carey
(Related: Suicide)
"We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Friend, Wealth, Israel, Participation, Security, Stability)
"There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world."
- Russ Carnahan
(Related: Destruction, Doubt, Israel, Mission, Weapons, World)
"Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations."
- Lincoln Chafee
(Related: Friendship, Appreciation, Deep, Democracy, Nations)
"We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn't mean that we're going to agree."
- Hillary Clinton
(Related: People, Values, American, Commitment, Future, Israel, Solution, states, United, World)
"American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted."
- William J. Clinton
(Related: Home, America, American, Democracy, Freedom, Israel, Liberty, Nations, Symbol)
"Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty."
- Juan Cole
(Related: Time, People, Conflict, Interest, Public)
"For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli."
- John Conyers
(Related: Women, Children, Violence)
"The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children."
- Jerry Costello
(Related: Men, Women, Survival, Children, Israel, Leading, Military, Obstacles, State, Suicide)
"Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith."
- Jerry Costello
(Related: Faith, Strength, Conviction, Israel)
"Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land."
- Moshe Dayan
(Related: Purpose, Conquest, Israel, Land, Soldiers)
"It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness."
- Moshe Dayan
(Related: Power, Policy, Strength, Cause, Israel, Weakness)
"Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor."
- Moshe Dayan
(Related: Israel, World)
"On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship."
- Nathan Deal
(Related: Citizenship, Countries, Country, Israel, Majority)
"In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's fight is our fight. And so shall it be until the last terrorist on earth is in a cell or a cemetery."
- Tom DeLay
(Related: People, Congress, Earth, Fight, Israel, states, United)
"My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism."
- Tom DeLay
(Related: War, Conflict, Friends, Terrorism)
"I've always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they'd just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don't need America or someone else to help."
- Bruce Dern
(Related: Thought, America, Help, Israel, Right, Tomorrow)
"I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate."
- Alan Dershowitz
(Related: College, Debate, Israel, Right, Television, Terrorism, Years)
"I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there."
- David Dinkins
(Related: Israel)
"In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee."
- David Dinkins
(Related: Americans, Committee, Israel, Support)
"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Life, Opportunity)
"London is a roost for every bird."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: London)
"My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Business, Life, Politics, Ideas, Liberalism, Principles)
"Never complain and never explain."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Truth, Feeling)
"Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Nature, Man)
"Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Independence, Nationality, Race)
"Never take anything for granted."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Moderation)
"Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Men, People, Virtue, Ambition, Fortune, Merit, Moderation, Want)
"Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Genius, Mediocrity, Talk)
"Man is only great when he acts from passion."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Man, Passion)
"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Fashion, Man, Nothing, Will, Worship)
"Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Books, Nonsense)
"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: People, Fear, Word)
"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Men, Circumstances, Man)
"Real politics are the possession and distribution of power."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Politics, Power, Possession)
"That fatal drollery called a representative government."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Government)
"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Beauty, Wealth, Elegance, Magnificence)
"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Man, Talk, Will)
"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Change, Country)
"Success is the child of audacity."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Success)
"London is a modern Babylon."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: London)
"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Men, Truth)
"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Learning, Suffering)
"No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Government, Opposition)
"Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Life, Biography, Nothing, Theory)
"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Power, People, Duty, Welfare)
"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Life, Success, Opportunity, Man)
"Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Life, Manners)
"Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Man)
"Silence is the mother of truth."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Mother, Truth, Silence)
"Genius, when young, is divine."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Genius)
"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Purpose, Being, Conviction, Existence, Fulfillment, Meditation, Nothing, Will)
"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Opinion)
"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Hope)
"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Idea, Ignorance, Wrong)
"Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Leisure, Man)
"Great countries are those that produce great people."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: People, Countries)
"I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Power, People, Trust, Exercise)
"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Mind, Right)
"Finality is not the language of politics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Politics, Language)
"Fear makes us feel our humanity."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Fear, Humanity)
"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Life, Power, Health, Men, Conscience, Fame, Pleasure)
"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Experience, Thought, Action)
"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Flattery, Royalty)
"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Life, Grief)
"The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Civilization, Improvement, Mankind, Security)
"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Life, Frankness, Man)
"Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Fear, Danger)
"King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Life, Politics, Success, Nation, Talking)
"Justice is truth in action."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Truth, Action, Justice)
"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Leader, People)
"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Being, Day, Nerves)
"I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Forget)
"In politics nothing is contemptible."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Politics, Nothing)
"Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Merit)
"If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Society, Grief, Man, Right)
"I say that justice is truth in action."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Truth, Action, Justice)
"Little things affect little minds."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"It is easier to be critical than correct."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"We moralize among ruins."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"There is no index of character so sure as the voice."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Character, Voice)
"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Life, Time, Explanations, Waste)
"Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Tools)
"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Success, People, Failure, Perseverance)
"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Time, Truth)
"To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Knowledge, Facts)
"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: People, Accomplishments)
"To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Class, Community, Tax)
"Travel teaches toleration."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Travel)
"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Sympathy, Feelings, Thoughts, Habits, Nations, Poor)
"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Education, People, Country, Fate)
"War is never a solution; it is an aggravation."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: War, Solution)
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Love, End, Existence)
"There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Character, Voice)
"William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"Youth is the trustee of prosperity."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Prosperity, Youth)
"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Age, Old, Regret, Struggle, Youth)
"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Thoughts, Heroes)
"You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Men, Women, Strength, Nation)
"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Life, Lie, Moderation)
"We cannot learn men from books."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Men, Books)
"Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Nation, Public, Publicity, Support)
"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Age, Future, Nation, Posterity, Suffering, Youth)
"Where knowledge ends, religion begins."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Religion, Knowledge)
"When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Man, World)
"What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Truth, Error)
"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Opportunity)
"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: God, Appetite, Hair, Worry)
"Without tact you can learn nothing."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Nothing, Tact)
"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Power, Knowledge, Man, Will)
"You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Life, Courage, Public, Will)
"There is no gambling like politics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Politics, Gambling)
"The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Calamity, Difference, Misfortune)
"The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Love, End, First, Ignorance, Magic)
"The fool wonders, the wise man asks."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Fool, Man, Wonders)
"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Day, Kings, Present)
"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Happiness, Health, People, State)
"The more you are talked about the less powerful you are."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: People, England, World)
"The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Politics, May, Practice)
"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Science, Pursuit)
"The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Clothes, Conservative, Enjoyment, Gentleman, Liberal, Right)
"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Life, Success, Opportunity, Man)
"The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Nation, Posterity, Youth)
"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Politics, Act, Party, Treachery)
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"There is no education like adversity."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Education, Adversity)
"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Success, Purpose, Constancy)
"There is moderation even in excess."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Excess, Moderation)
"There can be economy only where there is efficiency."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Economy, Efficiency)
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Lies, Statistics)
"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Democracy, Politicians, World)
"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: World)
"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Experience, Wisdom, Quotations)
"The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: History, Earth, Heaven, World)
"The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Concern)
"The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Peace, Fools)
"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Success, Opportunity)
"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Government, Conservative, Hypocrisy)
"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Youth)
"Adventures are to the adventurous."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Learning, Liberty, Light, University)
"A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Time, Career, Man, May)
"A majority is always better than the best repartee."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Majority)
"An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Mother, Books, Children)
"A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Soul, Chance, Destiny)
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Happiness, Action, May)
"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Art, Faith, Quality, Idea, Athens, Conquest, Man, Memory, Rome, World)
"Despair is the conclusion of fools."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Despair, Fools)
"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Genius, Enthusiasm, Production)
"Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Successful, Man, Right)
"Duty cannot exist without faith."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Faith, Duty)
"A precedent embalms a principle."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Genius, Desperation)
"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Life, Successful, Information, Man)
"Damn your principles! Stick to your party."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Party)
"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Courage, Fire)
"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Progress, Conservatism, Future, Preparation, Present, Respect)
"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: History, Assassination, World)
"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Mother, Diligence, Fortune)
"Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"As for our majority... one is enough."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Majority)
"Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Man, May, Succeed)
"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Change)
"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Change, Opinions)
"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Power, Control, Circumstances)
"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."
- Isaac D'Israeli
(Related: Experience, Wisdom, May, Quotation)
"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."
- Isaac D'Israeli
(Related: Experience, Wisdom, May, Quotation)
"Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone."
- John Doolittle
(Related: Mistake, Cities, Danger, Israel)
"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
- Mary Douglas
(Related: American, Israel)
"The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures - as a survival mechanism - the only Nazi country in the world is Israel."
- David Duke
(Related: Survival, Country, Israel, Trying, World)
"The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Wife, Battle, Israel, Man, Sleep)
"There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with."
- Lawrence Eagleburger
(Related: Israel, Name, Palestine, Trying)
"There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that."
- Lawrence Eagleburger
(Related: Example, Israel, Palestine, Weapons)
"If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions."
- Abba Eban
(Related: Earth, Israel, Resolution, Vote)
"Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Life, Men, People, Hope, Europe, Israel, Land, State, Will)
"Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology."
- Mohamed ElBaradei
(Related: Technology, Countries, First, Israel, Now)
"It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region."
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(Related: Confidence, Obvious, Overcoming, Resolution)
"Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed."
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(Related: People, Israel, Prosperity, Security, State)
"A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community."
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(Related: Positive, Community, Influence, Israel, Palestine, Solution, Will)
"Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic."
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(Related: Israel)
"I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time."
- Oriana Fallaci
(Related: Time, Israel, Right)
"I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God."
- Jerry Falwell
(Related: God, People, Israel)
"If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions."
- Douglas Feith
(Related: Life, Actions, Israel, Military, Night)
"Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions."
- Douglas Feith
(Related: Peace, Actions, Public)
"Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Idea, Conflict, Israel, Want)
"You still can't find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Israel)
"My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage."
- Gerald R. Ford
(Related: Morality, Commitment, Future, Israel, Security, Self)
"Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people."
- Vito Fossella
(Related: War, People, Terror)
"I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots."
- Muammar al Gaddafi
(Related: Idiots, State)
"In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003."
- Jim Gerlach
(Related: Americans, Fact, Israel, March, Suicide)
"Hitler had this deal where he was supposed to make it rough on them so they would all get out and migrate to Israel because they needed people there to fight the Arabs."
- Hutton Gibson
(Related: People, Fight, Israel)
"In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."
- David Ben Gurion
(Related: Israel, Miracles, Order)
"Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism."
- David Ben Gurion
(Related: People, Fight, Heroism, Israel, World)
"Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though."
- Arlo Guthrie
(Related: Work, People, Building, Countries, Israel, Will)
"Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too."
- Jurgen Habermas
(Related: People, Fight, Israel, Osama bin laden)
"Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis."
- Jurgen Habermas
(Related: Afghanistan)
"President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security."
- Lee H. Hamilton
(Related: Peace, American, First, Israel, Living, Palestine, President, Security)
"You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree."
- Rafik Hariri
(Related: Want)
"We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens."
- Rafik Hariri
(Related: Peace, Absence, Agreement, Israel, Security, Want)
"On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace."
- Rafik Hariri
(Related: Government, Peace, People, Israel)
"And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader."
- Rafik Hariri
(Related: Government, Leader)
"At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel."
- Jane Harman
(Related: Time, Actions, Israel, Violence)
"The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence."
- Alcee Hastings
(Related: Peace, Actions, Israel, Violence)
"Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal."
- Alcee Hastings
(Related: Goal, Israel, Killing, Soldiers)
"Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism."
- Bob Hawke
(Related: War, Terrorism)
"And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace."
- J. D. Hayworth
(Related: Peace, Israel, Land, Want)
"As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate."
- J. D. Hayworth
(Related: War, Difference, Mistakes)
"And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah."
- Elias Hicks
(Related: Miracles, Weakness)
"There was nothing then but the revelation of the spirit-of God that could make any of the Israelites understand and believe that he was their proper Messiah."
- Elias Hicks
(Related: God, Nothing, Spirit)
"The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup."
- Bob Hope
(Related: Israel)
"God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?"
- Samuel Hopkins
(Related: God, People, Israel, Possession)
"Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself."
- David Horowitz
(Related: America, Israel, Will)
"A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness."
- Duncan Hunter
(Related: People, Israel)
"I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace."
- King Hussein I
(Related: Peace, Israel, Opponents, Want)
"Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend."
- David Irving
(Related: Friend, Israel, State, Today)
"I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Retirement, Security)
"Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about."
- Steve Israel
(Related: People, Living, Nothing, Shadows)
"The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Act, Research)
"The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Americans, Benefits, Needs, President, Retirement, Security)
"Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined."
- Steve Israel
(Related: American, Poverty, President, Security, Workers)
"Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Laws, Nation)
"It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Age, Men, Women, Work, Jobs, Labor, May, Old, Retirement, Years)
"You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform."
- Steve Israel
(Related: People, Reform, Security, Will)
"As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Finance, Benefits, Help, Security, Today, Will, Workers)
"I believe that as a nation we must have a bipartisan discussion about how to best preserve and protect Social Security for our seniors and for future generations of Americans."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Americans, Future, Generations, Nation, Security)
"As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%."
- Steve Israel
(Related: America, Poverty, Result)
"Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Men, Time, Women)
"Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Burden, Children, Debt, Interest, Support)
"For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Men, Women, Retirement, Security)
"I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Government, Christmas, Frustration, Santa claus)
"I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Washington)
"After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Result, Terrorism)
"The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward."
- Valerie Jarrett
(Related: Fact, Friends, Israel, Leaders, states, United, World)
"Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: Faith, Life, Love, Society, America, Freedom, Israel, Spiritual)
"Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon."
- Walid Jumblatt
(Related: Israel)
"The banding together by the nations of the world against Israel is the guarantee that their time of destruction is near and the final redemption of the Jew at hand."
- Meir Kahane
(Related: Time, Destruction, Israel, Nations, World)
"Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago."
- Meir Kahane
(Related: Time, Growth, Israel, Years)
"I've seen it all, done it all, known it all."
- Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
"Wherever you go, God be with you."
- Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
(Related: God)
"The Iranian regime gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon."
- Moshe Katsav
(Related: Financial, Israel, State, Support, Trying, World)
"The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed."
- Moshe Katsav
(Related: Government, Authority, Community, Israel, Opinion)
"I am sure the majority of Iranians want a peace agreement with Israel and want Iran to integrate with the international community and accept its universal values."
- Moshe Katsav
(Related: Peace, Values, Agreement, Community, Israel, Majority, Want)
"I am proud to be the president of the state of Israel."
- Moshe Katsav
(Related: Israel, President, State)
"I don't think that Iran with a nuclear capability will be just the problem of the state of Israel. This is a matter that concerns the whole world."
- Moshe Katsav
(Related: Israel, State, Will, World)
"For a good chunk of Israelis, it doesn't matter who is in power when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians. Their focus was more on economic issues."
- Jonathan Katz
(Related: Power, Focus)
"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Home, Success, Hope, Adversity, Democracy, Freedom, Israel, Order, Will)
"Israel is one of the easiest places to play ball. When I say easy I am referring to the easy lifestyle an athlete has while in Israel. It's very easy to get around the country, because it's so small."
- Michael Kennedy
(Related: Country, Israel, Play)
"No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel."
- Michael Kennedy
(Related: Country, Israel)
"If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons."
- Bruce Kent
(Related: First, Weapons)
"We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims."
- Ayatollah Khamenei
(Related: People, Americans)
"The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples."
- Henry A. Kissinger
(Related: Israel, Security)
"There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000."
- Emile Lahoud
(Related: Constitution, Israel, Occupation, President, Treason)
"Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement."
- Norman Lamm
(Related: Government, Israel, Present, Religious)
"Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state."
- Norman Lamm
(Related: Attitude, Positive, Israel, Land, State)
"Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel. A significant number go on aliyah. We are proud of our Israel programs, which come at a considerable cost to the university."
- Norman Lamm
(Related: Thoughts, Israel, Students, University)
"As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year."
- Norman Lamm
(Related: Love, Israel, Students, Study)
"I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly."
- Norman Lamm
(Related: Government, People, Being, Error, Planning, Will)
"Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth."
- Tom Lantos
(Related: Children, Contempt, Suffering)
"Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith."
- Kenneth Scott Latourette
(Related: Faith, History, Religion, Christianity, Israel, Preparation)
"The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians."
- Kenneth Scott Latourette
(Related: Israel)
"The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel."
- Hal Lindsey
(Related: Israel, Land, Rebirth)
"I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."
- Nelson Mandela
(Related: Israel, states)
"Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap."
- Marc Maron
(Related: Israel)
"Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not."
- Chris Matthews
(Related: Enemies, Israel, Terrorism)
"We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely."
- Chris Matthews
(Related: Friend, Israel)
"Well, the right-wing policy with regard to Israel - the people who don't want to deal with Arafat, who don't want a Palestinian state - the whole sort of right-wing view is consistent with the view toward Iraq. It's the same policy and the same people."
- Chris Matthews
(Related: People, Policy, Iraq, Israel, Right, State, Want)
"And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives."
- Chris Matthews
(Related: People, Iraq, Israel, Motives, Support)
"It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank."
- Chris Matthews
(Related: American, Interest, Party)
"The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon."
- Michael McCaul
(Related: Destruction, Israel, President)
"The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence."
- Michael Medved
(Related: Truth, Existence, Israel, Palestine)
"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel."
- Golda Meir
(Related: Israel)
"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"
- Golda Meir
(Related: Order, Years)
"There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel."
- Robert Menendez
(Related: Community, Israel)
"Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems."
- John Mica
(Related: Failure, Behavior, Bureaucracy, Countries, Israel, Security)
"It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done."
- John Mica
(Related: People, Talking)
"Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election."
- Adam Michnik
(Related: Country, Israel, Parliament)
"Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist."
- Hassan Nasrallah
(Related: Body, Environment, Israel)
"That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle."
- Hassan Nasrallah
(Related: Peace, Agreement, Israel, Parliament, Will)
"When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it."
- Hassan Nasrallah
(Related: Government, Peace, Agreement, Israel)
"You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo."
- Hassan Nasrallah
(Related: Cities, Result)
"The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones."
- Hassan Nasrallah
"I am against any reconciliation with Israel."
- Hassan Nasrallah
(Related: Israel)
"However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel."
- Hassan Nasrallah
(Related: Legal, Israel, State)
"First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever."
- Benjamin Netanyahu
(Related: People, First, Israel, State, Will, Wrong)
"I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table."
- Benjamin Netanyahu
(Related: Peace, Israel, Will)
"The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years."
- Benjamin Netanyahu
(Related: Government, Peace, Commitment, Contrast, Deeds, Past, Words, Years)
"So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away."
- Benjamin Netanyahu
(Related: Goal, Israel, Weapons)
"But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end."
- Benjamin Netanyahu
(Related: Day, Destruction, End, Iraq, Israel, Night, Racing, Weapons)
"I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself."
- Don Nickles
(Related: Thought, Israel, Nation, Right)
"Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that."
- Richard M. Nixon
(Related: Patriotism, People, Americans, Freedom, Garden, Idealism, Passion)
"The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Friendship, Peace, Failure, Israel, World, Wrong)
"We've already seen proliferation. We started it with Britain, then France. Then we benignly let the Israelis do it. The Pakistanis and the Indians have recently done it. The Chinese have nuclear weapons."
- William Odom
(Related: France, Weapons)
"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."
- Amos Oz
(Related: Draft, France, Israel, Majority, Resolution)
"Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself."
- Amos Oz
(Related: Israel, Religious, World)
"I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music."
- Amos Oz
(Related: Music, Sea)
"I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips."
- Amos Oz
(Related: Love, Promotion)
"I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships."
- Amos Oz
(Related: Time, People, Conflict, First, Years)
"But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort."
- Amos Oz
(Related: People, Fanaticism, Israel, Nationalism, News, Sea)
"And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim."
- Amos Oz
(Related: Conflict, Land, Respect, Tragedy)
"Israel has always been and must always be America's strongest ally."
- George E. Pataki
(Related: America, Israel)
"The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom."
- George Pataki
(Related: War, Morality, People, Defense, Freedom, Israel)
"Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship."
- George Pataki
(Related: Country, Freedom, Israel, Speech, Worship)
"I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer."
- Mandy Patinkin
(Related: Peace, Now)
"Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all."
- Mandy Patinkin
(Related: Peace, Israel, Justice, World)
"Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts."
- Ron Paul
(Related: America, Compromise, Leading, Play, Washington)
"Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist."
- Tom Paulin
(Related: Israel)
"I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country."
- Tom Paulin
(Related: People, Actions, Awareness, Country, Needs, Protest)
"I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all."
- Tom Paulin
(Related: Israel, Right)
"In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction."
- Tom Paulin
(Related: Creation, Culture, Israel, Responsibility)
"We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel."
- Nancy Pelosi
(Related: Congress, Israel, Voice)
"The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes."
- Jean-Marie Le Pen
(Related: Government, War, Military, Now, Result)
"The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided."
- Jean-Marie Le Pen
(Related: Government, Conflict, Television)
"I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem."
- Mike Pence
(Related: Thought, American, Day, Israel, State)
"What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?"
- Shimon Peres
(Related: Choice, Future, Israel, Land, Reason, State)
"I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me."
- River Phoenix
(Related: Change)
"I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language."
- John Pilger
(Related: American, Israel, Language, states, United, World)
"Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S."
- Romano Prodi
(Related: Mother, Cooperation, Europe, Problems, Question)
"Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington."
- Yitzhak Rabin
(Related: American, Eyes, Israel, Washington)
"The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace."
- Yitzhak Rabin
(Related: Peace, Israel, states, Struggle, United, Weapons, Will)
"Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation."
- Yitzhak Rabin
(Related: Peace, People, Cooperation, Israel, Journey)
"I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister."
- Yitzhak Rabin
(Related: First, Israel, Old, Years)
"I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
- Yitzhak Rabin
(Related: Conflict, Israel, Separation, Solution)
"I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act."
- Yitzhak Rabin
(Related: Peace, Lie, Act, Israel, Responsibility)
"I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace."
- Yitzhak Rabin
(Related: Peace, Leader, People, Purpose, Israel, Living, State)
"I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state."
- Yitzhak Rabin
(Related: Israel, State, Will)
"Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security."
- Yitzhak Rabin
(Related: Israel, Security)
"Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place."
- Joseph Ratzinger
(Related: God, People, Christian, Conviction, Israel, Will)
"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."
- Ronald Reagan
(Related: Israel, Security)
"Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance."
- Condoleezza Rice
(Related: Peace, Success, Acting, America, Chance, Help, Years)
"Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem."
- Geraldo Rivera
(Related: Israel)
"Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces."
- Geraldo Rivera
(Related: Virtue, Defense)
"Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners."
- Dennis Ross
(Related: Enemy, Security)
"On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans."
- J. Philippe Rushton
"That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State."
- Ali A. Saleh
(Related: Occupation, State)
"The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis."
- Ali A. Saleh
(Related: Absence, Cause, Events, Justice, May, Oppression)
"No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area."
- Michael Scheuer
(Related: Perception, Ability, Exercise, Giving, Leading, Want)
"Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth."
- Phyllis Schlafly
(Related: Women, Idea, Country, Israel, Myth)
"As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence."
- Charles Schumer
(Related: People, Choice, Israel, School)
"You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace."
- Charles Schumer
(Related: Peace, Fact, Majority, states, Want)
"Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority."
- Jack Schwartz
(Related: Authority, Rights)
"Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East."
- Jack Schwartz
(Related: Democracy, Israel)
"Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide."
- Jack Schwartz
(Related: War, Survival, Existence, Genocide, Israel, Military, Nation, Now)
"Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia."
- Jack Schwartz
(Related: First, Israel, Symbol, Today, Victims)
"When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it."
- Jack Schwartz
(Related: Military)
"First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict."
- Brent Scowcroft
(Related: Conflict, First)
"Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not."
- Brent Scowcroft
(Related: Enemy, Israel)
"For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan."
- John Shadegg
(Related: Power, Company, Energy, Example, Project, State)
"We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another."
- Silvan Shalom
(Related: Day, Israel, Order, Privilege, Safety, Security)
"Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis."
- Silvan Shalom
(Related: Suicide)
"There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel."
- Silvan Shalom
(Related: Israel, Measure, State)
"All of the land of Israel is ours."
- Yitzhak Shamir
(Related: Israel, Land)
"Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever."
- Yitzhak Shamir
(Related: Flags, Israel, Will)
"We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization."
- Yitzhak Shamir
(Related: History, Israel, Nations, United)
"It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel."
- Natan Sharansky
(Related: Hatred, Israel)
"Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace."
- Natan Sharansky
(Related: Peace, Hatred, Israel)
"By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail."
- Natan Sharansky
(Related: Peace, Society, Compromise, Doubt)
"The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel."
- Natan Sharansky
(Related: Peace, Power, Money, Fight, Israel, Terror, Weapons)
"Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel."
- Natan Sharansky
(Related: Society, Peace, Idea, Fear, Grave, Israel, World)
"Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population."
- Moshe Sharett
(Related: Aggression, Israel, Population, Security, World)
"The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth."
- Moshe Sharett
(Related: Time, Earth, Force, Israel, State, Will)
"I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered."
- Moshe Sharett
(Related: Deceit, Facts, Israel, State)
"Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber."
- Moshe Sharett
(Related: People, Strength, Israel)
"Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians."
- Ariel Sharon
(Related: Peace, Conflict, Importance, Solution, Will)
"Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have."
- Ariel Sharon
(Related: Leader, Country, Israel, Judgment, Needs, Nerves, Reason, Senses)
"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial."
- Ariel Sharon
(Related: People, Israel, May, Right, State)
"Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks."
- Ron Silver
(Related: Peace, American, Israel, Leaders, Past)
"There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God."
- George A. Smith
(Related: Life, God, Truth, Care, Israel, Lies, Press, Sight)
"I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine."
- Steven Spielberg
(Related: Time, Israel, Machine)
"I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
- Steven Spielberg
(Related: American, Conflict)
"The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made."
- Ezra Stiles
(Related: American, Israel, Nations)
"The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging."
- John W. Thompson
(Related: Encouraging, Investment, Israel, Security)
"I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization."
- Harry S. Truman
(Related: Faith, Civilization, Future, Ideals, Israel, Nation, Now)
"We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years."
- Steven Tyler
(Related: Change, Country, Draft, Israel, May, Service, Years)
"I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish."
- Leon Uris
(Related: Inspiration, Irish, Israel, Palestine, Struggle)
"The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: Israel, Thinking, Weapons)
"So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: Israel, World)
"Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: People, Israel)
"From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: People, Sea, Soldiers)
"But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter."
- Zach Wamp
(Related: Truth, Destruction, Israel, Now, Ugly, Want, World)
"Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel."
- Zach Wamp
(Related: Leadership, War, People, America, Israel, Palestine, states, United)
"If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight."
- Zach Wamp
(Related: America, Iraq, Israel, State, Tomorrow)
"I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy."
- Roger Waters
(Related: Policy, Foreign policy, Israel, Play)
"There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started."
- Anthony Weiner
(Related: Time, Doubt, Israel, Popular)
"Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores."
- Anthony Weiner
(Related: Actions, Fight, Fighting, Investment, Israel, Military, State, Terrorism)
"For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy."
- Julius Wellhausen
(Related: History, Temple, Building, Israel)
"I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said "There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.""
- Bradley Whitford
(Related: Rights, Human rights, Israel, Military, Solution, Terrorism, World)
"Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel."
- David Wilkerson
(Related: Men, America, Children, Israel, Poor)
"In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites."
- Isaac Mayer Wise
(Related: Europe, Misfortune, Russia)
"Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites."
- Isaac Mayer Wise
(Related: Europe, Russia)
"The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power."
- Isaac Mayer Wise
(Related: Power, Israel, Nations)
"Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression."
- Ahmed Yassin
(Related: Work, People, Aggression, Israel, Saying)
"The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people."
- Ahmed Yassin
(Related: People, Israel)
"We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland."
- Ahmed Yassin
(Related: Americans, Enemy, Fight)
"I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza."
- Ahmed Yassin
(Related: Israel, Will)
"But if Sharon wants to occupy Gaza, let him come. Israel will pay the price."
- Ahmed Yassin
(Related: Israel, Will)
"Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map."
- Ahmed Yassin
(Related: Israel, State)
"It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression."
- Ahmed Yassin
(Related: People, Aggression, Alliance, Exaggeration, Military, United)
"Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers."
- Ahmed Yassin
(Related: Battle, Soldiers)
"There is no comparison between the training here and the training in Israel."
- Isaac Yeffet
(Related: Israel, Training)
"We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory."
- A. B. Yehoshua
(Related: People, Identity)
"Everything changes but change."
- Israel Zangwill
(Related: Change)
"America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!"
- Israel Zangwill
(Related: God, America, Europe)
"Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion."
- Israel Zangwill
(Related: Religion, Atheism, Selfishness)
"A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it."
- Israel Zangwill
(Related: Wife, Cleverness, Man)
"The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it."
- Israel Zangwill
(Related: Love, First, Sight)
"In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera."
- Israel Zangwill
(Related: Love, Opera, Passion, Play)
"Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled."
- Israel Zangwill
(Related: Christian)
"No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman."
- Israel Zangwill
(Related: American, Will)
"No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man."
- Israel Zangwill
(Related: Christian, Fool, Man)
"New York is the great stone desert."
- Israel Zangwill
"It takes two men to make one brother."
- Israel Zangwill
(Related: Men, Brother)
"The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition."
- Israel Zangwill
(Related: Inspiration, Danger, Glamour, Imitation, Past, Prison, Repetition)