Ehud Olmert Quotes

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Ehud Olmert

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 30, 1945

I believe that there is no path other than the path of peace.

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International economic and political sanctions on Iran, as crucial as they may be, are only an initial step, and must be dramatically increased.

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The United States is a superpower whose influence reaches across oceans and beyond borders.

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Israel is grateful that America believes in us.

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It is impossible to think of a world in which America was not there in the honorable service of humanity.

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We must give up Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem and return to the core of the territory that is the State of Israel prior to 1967, with minor corrections dictated by the reality created since then.

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Already at the time of Israel's birth, Ben-Gurion extended his hand in peace to the Arab nations. His hand was rejected, but it remains extended.

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I understand the importance which the Palestinian society attributes to the issue of prisoners.

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Historic scores cannot be settled, and scars cannot be obliterated.

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I want to lead. I want to change. And I'm going to do it.

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I always admired the tolerance of my family - you know, that they tolerated my dissension for the family consensus.

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I have reached a conclusion that when we have to make a choice between greater Israel or a Jewish democratic state - and we have to make this choice, it is inevitable - then my choice is a Jewish democratic country.

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Yasser Arafat never wanted to make peace with Israel.

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I'm entirely free of any suspicions or complaints about the Obama administration. I think the Obama administration is very friendly to Israel. I know a lot of the people in the administration, and they are committed to Israel.

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From the end of 2006 until the end of 2008 I think I met with Abu Mazen more often than any Israeli leader has ever met any Arab leader. I met him more than 35 times. They were intense, serious negotiations.

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I would never agree to an exclusive Muslim sovereignty over areas that are religiously important to Jews and Christians.

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Nobody stands above the law.

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I never took a bribe. This is the truth, and there is no other.

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Israel has said many times - and I also said this to German television in an interview - that we will not be the first country that introduces nuclear weapons to the Middle East.

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As a young politician, I voted against the return of Sinai and peace with Egypt. I was mistaken.

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