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But ... the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies - those days are over. — Benjamin Netanyahu

I would be heartbroken if I ever thought that people in the Jewish community thought that Britain was no longer a safe place for them. — David Cameron

Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses. — Salvador Dali

Anyone who makes the life of Jewish people difficult or grievous, as did the Pharaoh, as did Hitler, will be cursed by God. — John Hagee

The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity. — Elie Wiesel

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams. — Ralph Lauren

The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other. — Menachem Begin

People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz. — Nathan Lane

Zionism wants to define the Jewish people as a national entity ... which is a heresy. — Roger Garaudy

People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor. — Noam Chomsky

There are very close ties between the Jewish and Mormon people. — Chuck Schumer

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war. — Menachem Begin

For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people. — Ariel Sharon

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people. — Jesse Jackson

David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism by people like Ishmael Reed. — Ishmael Reed

I come from French Cajun Jewish people. — Shia Labeouf

The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him. — Meir Soloveichik

The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done superbly. They don't need me. They have Einstein. They have everybody - Maury Povich. — Geraldo Rivera

I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking. — Natalie Portman

The Jewish people, no matter where they are, they become the best in the world. — Josef Mengele

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue. — Martin Short

They're good people. I have a lot of Jewish friends. — Alex Jones

San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people. — Elayne Boosler

People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful. — Desmond Tutu

I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people. THAT — Elie Wiesel

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America. — Anna Deavere Smith

When I was growing up, I didn't know who Jewish people were, what it was to be Jewish. — Mike Birbiglia

If the Palestinian people really suffered a nakba, it was largely of their own making - and that of their grand mufti. — Sol Stern

I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people. — Patti Smith

I'll admit it, the Holocaust was definitely a bad thing, but do we really need Jewish people around? They have big noses. I said it! I said it! — Carlos Mencia

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. — Toni Morrison

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived. — Jonathan Sacks

If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ. — Ted Cruz

Come on people! Somebody disagree with me! How can we learn anything if no one will disagree?" Rabbi Stern — Athol Dickson

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish. — Matisyahu

I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid. — Debra Winger

Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial. — Ariel Sharon

My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene. — Leon Uris

There are three things Jewish people worship-God, Chinese food and wall-to-wall carpeting. — Woody Allen

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people. — David Icke

You don't persecute an entire people unless you fear the truth that they are carrying! — Celso Cukierkorn

I believe young people hold the key to building a vibrant global Jewish future, and we must invest in their passion and potential to do so. — Lynn Schusterman

Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable. — Theodor Herzl

I am Jewish. My real name is Chris Tuckenberg. A lot of people don't know about that. — Chris Tucker

The struggle which is now beginning between the Zionist and Bolshevik Jews is little less than a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people. — Winston Churchill

I'm more Jewish than you think I am ... I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people. — Rick Perry

You can't love God without loving the Jewish people. — Corrie Ten Boom

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. — Ken Livingstone

and it was the pride and ambition of the Jewish people to co-operate in the front ranks to carry on the former glory of the fame of Viennese culture. — Stefan Zweig

When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is. — Antonio Sabato Jr.

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in. — Gary Ackerman

Most people are blown away by the fact that Beck is Jewish ... and Billy Joel. I didn't know he was Jewish. — Guy Oseary

The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror. — Langston Hughes

Our people represent a tapestry of interwoven identities embodying the rich diversity of what it means to be Jewish. — Lynn Schusterman

The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole. — Moshe Katsav

I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way. — Joy Behar

The Jewish people are very diverse, and I believe this rich tapestry of identities and experiences strengthens our community. — Lynn Schusterman

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. — Toni Morrison

The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership. — John F. Kennedy

I'm always stunned when I find out people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much? — Mel Brooks

People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am - I'm white! — Sarah Silverman

I don't even know if people even care what a 27-year-old Jewish kid thinks about politics. — Joe Mande

The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people. — Yitzhak Shamir

The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it. — Harold S. Kushner

It took just an ordinary stick to free the Jewish people. — Euginia Herlihy

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too. — Jim Goad

For me, Jerusalem was united, will be under Israel sovereignty, will be the capital of Israel and the heart of the Jewish people. — Yitzhak Rabin

I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms. — Billy Graham

I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue. — Jill Soloway

There is no greater anti-Semite that the Jewish one, and none hates the Jewish people more than the Jewish traitor and apostate. — Meir Kahane

I really love how Israel operates, and I love the Jewish people. — Joe Arpaio