Quotes by : Golda Meir

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

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never afford himself.

There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - we have no place to go.

I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling....

A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in....

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors....

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

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