Quotes by Golda Meir

Golda Meir

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Battle

Leadership

Reality

A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as ‘the only man’ in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!

Doubt

Israel

Men

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Country

Morning

Thinking

America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it’s tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn’t solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it’s still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment?

Country

Government

Opportunity

Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.

Favors

Israel

Responsibility

Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.

Believe

Overcoming

Women

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Done

Political

President

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

Children

Mother

Struggle

Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.

Funny

Humorous

Joy

But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society.

Criminals

Mean

Society

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Age

Alternatives

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Believe

Birthday

Brutality

Children

Civilization

Collaboration

Community

Compromise

Country

Criminals

Dark

Doe

Done

Doubt

Echoes

Egypt

Expression

Fashion

Favors

Feelings

Feminism

Fighting

Funny

Government

Guilt

Hands

Hate

Heart

Home

Humorous

Imposition

Inspiration

Inspirational

Israel

Israeli

Joy

Judaism

Leader

Leadership

Luxury

Mean

Memories

Men

Military

Morning

Mother

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Quotes by Golda Meir

Golda Meir

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.

Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.

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