About Author : Golda Meir was the fourth prime minister, and a founder, of the State of Israel.After serving as the Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister, Golda Meir became Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969. She was described as the “Iron Lady” of Israeli politics years before the epithet became associated with British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.David Ben-Gurion used to call her “the only man in the government.” Meir was Israel’s first woman prime minister and the third woman in the world to hold this office, but the first to do so without a family member having been head of state or government.
Golda Meir Quotes and Quotations
As President Nixon says presidents can do almost anything and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
To be successful a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
It is true we have won all our wars but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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.
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
What do you gain Soviet Union from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR.
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world to be masters of our own fate not of others and in cooperation and friendship with others.
I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like dtente when there’s a good English phrase for it cold war.
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil.
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.
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world no ideals.
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.
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon-no alternative.
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
I must govern the clock not be governed by it.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Don’t be so humble you are not that great.
Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half not – not – nothing.