Ehud Olmert Quotes

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Ehud Olmert

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 30, 1945

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

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There were certain people who were out to get me. I know who those people were. They exist, believe me. They know that I know. They spent millions of dollars in order to try to get rid of me. I'm happy they lost most of their money.

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When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.

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I know I'm unpopular.

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Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.

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I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.

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Merkel is an amazing woman, very experienced in international politics.

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Politicians are strong to the extent that they are ready to take serious decisions and fight for it.

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A bloc of states is emerging that understands that they may have been wrong to think that Israel is the world's greatest problem.

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Saudi Arabia is the country that in the end will determine the ability of the Arabs to reach a compromise with Israel.

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There is no doubt that there is a very strange phenomenon called the 'State Comptroller.'

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When armed people from Hamas and armed people from Fatah are standing opposite each other, there is more likely to be a confrontation amongst them.

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I want to separate from the Palestinians. I want them to have their independent, separate state on a contiguous territory, and I want Israel to exist, of course, as a Jewish state in its own territory, as an independent state in its own territory. The Palestinian state, the Israeli state, separate. This is my dream.

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The days that Israel was separated from Europe are gone.

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For me, Arik Sharon - I remember his courage and inspiration. I want to remember him the way he really was, not as an aging 80-year-old man living in bed helpless and unconscious.

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The fundamental interest - long-range strategic interest - of the state of Israel is that we will have the international bodies and primarily the United Nations recognize the two-state solution, so that there will never be any doubt as to the right of Israel to have its own Jewish independent state.

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I don't understand this pathetic need for luxuries.

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I don't expect to be coddled, but I'm also a human being.

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The newspapers are always reminding the public that I am an unpopular prime minister.

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What do you prefer? A prime minister obsessed with being popular, or a prime minister who does the job?

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