Ehud Olmert Quotes

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Ehud Olmert

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 30, 1945

Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.

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It's a problem sometimes when you speak to journalists. They quote you, and then they read what they wrote, and then they even explain it. It's dangerous.

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I trust the integrity of the British government and the British soldiers.

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Promoting tolerance and human dignity is one of mankind's unfinished challenges.

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Many Palestinians have been living for decades in camps, disconnected from the environment in which they grew up, wallowing in poverty, in neglect, alienation, bitterness, and a deep, unrelenting sense of humiliation.

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I sometimes feel tired. But there are so many reasons for being tired.

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I love my country more than anything else.

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I'm not saying it was wrong to intervene in Kosovo.

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Palestinian violence is not a response to the capture of the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian nationalism's roots are not so shallow.

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Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games.

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When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that's how I am going to continue to do in the future.

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The Palestinian Authority is ruled by Hamas, an organization committed to vehement anti-Semitism, the glorification of terror, and the total destruction of Israel.

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There is no need to get caught up in any apocalyptic prophecies that have no basis in reality.

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How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.

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The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

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Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

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When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.

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Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?

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It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.

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In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions.

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