Israeli - Statesman | August 2, 1923 - September 28, 2016
Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.
Shimon Peres
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For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.
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A politician and a government should be judged by one way only: on the record of what you do or did, not on what you say.
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I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.
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I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.
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The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.
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The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
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David Ben-Gurion was a mythic figure, the founding father of Israel and a modern-day prophet, but he was also a real man who stormed through history on human legs. It was my great privilege to know him and work with him for many years.
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The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
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Science doesn't have flags. Science doesn't have borders.
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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?
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When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.
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