One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. - Golda Meir

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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. - Golda Meir

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Even paranoids have real enemies. - Golda Meir

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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. - Golda Meir

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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. -Golda Meir

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. - Golda Meir

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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go. - Golda Meir

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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. -Golda Meir

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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

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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. - Golda Meir

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