Shimon Peres Quotes

I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.

Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose.

Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.

One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.

When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

Terrorists and murderers are so dangerous. We shouldn't fall victim to believe that they are immune.

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

If you have more dreams than achievements-you're young.

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar

I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.

You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.

If you eat three times a day you'll be fed but if you read three times a day you'll be wise.

Find a cause that's larger than yourself and then give your life to it.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

It's a morality that keeps humans human.

For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.

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.

In every war, there are always elements of blindness.

Polls are like perfume-nice to smell, dangerous to swallow

Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.

If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.

[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs.

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

When I look at the record of President Obama concerning the major issue security I think it's a highly satisfactory record from Israeli point of view.

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.

In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.

Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here?

Most of the Palestinians don't understand what they're doing.Politically, people can say what they want. The problem is not political, but religious.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.

Israel's doors are open to collaboration with Bulgaria.

Hamas married the Iranians. It was their choice. They are the same family.

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.