Golda Meir

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? ... Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

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.

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! - New York Times, 6//10/73

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard ther's nothing you can do.

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

Don't be humble, you're not that great.

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

Don't be so humble. You're not that great.