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

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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

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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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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. -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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. - Golda Meir

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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. - Golda Meir

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The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight. - Golda Meir

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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. - Golda Meir

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