Shimon Peres Quotes (176 Quotes)

distinguish between the people involved in terror and people who are trying to live their daily life.

With words it is possible to achieve a lot more than with explosions and it is our desire to bring the current conflict to an end, ... The solution is the reconciliation between two nations.

Some of the issues will be simply too difficult to overcome with such speed, ... I believe that at this point in time two years should suffice for the negotiators to get there.

We were at the point where all of us could have lost control of the situation, and the bloodshed reached an unbelievable proportion. ... we pray for a day without funerals.

I imagine there will be an approach to Labor during next week to join in a new national unity government,

My goal is to make peace and it doesn't matter with which party.

I am in favor of talking with the Palestinians, ... I think the aerial bombings should be stopped. They do us more harm than good.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

we would have left the Gaza Strip ten years ago.

aimed at bringing about a cessation of terror and violence and as such creating the necessary groundwork for the renewal of political negotiations.

Israel expects the Palestinian authorities to take immediate action to stop the firing and put an end to violence.

What he started will never be forgotten and we shall continue to act in the same way until we shall achieve the most noble goal of our life, and that is peace among ourselves and our neighbors.

I believe that a train is the most efficient and best idea among the options presented to us,

You are saving the state of Israel, ... Israel has dangers from the outside, and Israel Defense Forces face them all. And now, we have a danger from the inside, and now the IDF has to deal with that as well.

They're endangering every attempt to build a block of peace again, ... This reduces very much the necessary trust for going back and negotiating with the responsible party.

Gaza from now on is the problem of the Palestinians, not Israel, ... They have tens of thousands of security men with guns on the payroll. They must get organized one people, one voice, one gun.

This is a country which proves that it can make a difficult decision, a democratic decision, without fear, and that it is not afraid of threats and protests, ... On the other hand, it's a democratic country, in the sense that we can also protest, and we can also weep.

Another Palestinian official called the cease-fire declaration a trick, ... I invite the Palestinians to use the same trick.

In many ways, this is more of a warning than a military operation. It is a warning to Arafat, telling him 'Take the situation into your own hands and respond to the real problems,' ... Larry King Live.

a concentration of people who are planning attacks in Israel.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, however, expressed optimism about the eventual outcome of talks. We can reach an agreement with the Syrians, ... The differences are not as wide as one may think.

an attempt to bring an end to the government of one of the most terrible persons of our time, Saddam Hussein. ... And we think and know that he is on his way to acquire a nuclear option then it will be terrible.

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

Israel is determined to bring an end to the violence and bring a beginning to peace, ... Actually, we'd like to end violence as soon as possible because we're interested to start the negotiation at the earliest possible date.

I think the year must be devoted not for politics but for policies, mainly to implement the disengagement, the withdrawal from Gaza, and the dismantling of the settlements in Gaza and in the northern part of Samaria the northern West Bank.

When you say there is no partner, then only one partner is left the terrorists. This is a mistake of the first order.

We shall not be able to fly, to walk, to come out, to drink water, if in this world there will be an intervention of cruel, crazy, fanatic people that are using modern equipment in order to kill indiscriminately,

The petition was unnecessary and vengeful, it shamed Labor and it embarrassed the party's members. The people who filed the petition should be indicted for breach of trust, for the forgeries in the voter registration drive, the irregularities in the Labor primary and for failure to take responsibility for the great damage that has been done to the party.

I wouldn't commit myself. I don't think I can give you a response. Israel will be very careful and reluctant to go out of the conventional domain of weaponry.

A political agreement (with Syria) may be an end of a war. But an economic agreement may be a beginning of peace,

If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out.

I think we can run a government with 28 seats. It will be difficult, but possible.

There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.

I hope the people in charge of the military will meet either today or tomorrow. If the results will be as positive as the agreement to meet is, then this will open the way for negotiations,

feels his weakness, and will end the Palestinian dream for establishing a Palestinian state.

He was a visionary, a believer in peace. He supported it, dreamed of it and fought for it, ... With his passing, we lose one of the most experienced and wisest leaders that this region has enjoyed in the last half century.

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

I don't know if it has any chance of success. But it is something we must say. I don't think it is a matter of what one thinks is worthwhile or not. This is intolerable,

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

A man that combines moral foundations with intellectual talents. And serves a cause. He becomes uninteresting the minute he becomes self-concerned. Then it's a waste of greatness not greatness.

He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.

promoting fear in the nation.

It is impossible to administer peace or negotiations until terrorists are disarmed, ... We must quash the terror at its roots.

Peace is something that needs continuous cultivating and unending dialogue, ... At Oslo it was agreed to clarify all the issues by way of dialogue at the negotiating table, without the interference of terror and violence, and that is the way to act.

We shall not agree to convert Israel into a Palestinian state by changing the Jewish majority and having a Palestinian majority,

one of the ... bravest and most principled political leaders of our time.

I understand that this is a battle for power, but I am convinced that if Netanyahu is elected, he will be as he was before previous elections, ... He was in favor of the Oslo Accords, and he shook Arafat's hand.

We deeply dread the idea that the terrorism will move from Gaza to the West Bank which is why we are carrying out preventive operations,

Time is short. We must all do our best so the last gap does not become a setback.

We must pay attention to the situation and the mood of the Palestinian people in the territories. We do not want them to suffer, we do not want them to pay a price for terror and violence,