I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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My delegation cannot refrain from speaking on this question-we who have such an intimate knowledge of boxcars and of deportations to unknown destinations that we cannot be silent.Golda Meir
Moses dragged us for 40 years through the desert to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda Meir
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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The man of the Cross, who heads the church whose symbol is the Cross, under which Jews were killed for generations. I could not escape the feeling. It stuck with me. And he felt it-that a Jewess was sitting opposite him.
Golda Meir
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
Golda Meir
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