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. - 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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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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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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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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Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that. - 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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. - 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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