Golda Meir

When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.

There is no such thing as Palestinians... They did not exist.

We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children.

We only want peace, but if the Arabs want war, they will get war.

Zionism and socialism are one and the same.

I must say that I have never been a great admirer of the male sex. I have always thought that women are much more capable, much more intelligent, much more sensitive, much more sophisticated than men.

I don't mind being a woman, but I do mind being a woman in the Middle East.

We don’t want to be a nation of shopkeepers. We want to be a nation of students, of scholars, of scientists, of artists, of writers. We want to be a nation of people who can sing, who can dance, who can paint, who can sculpt, who can compose.