Reuven Rivlin Quotes

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Reuven Rivlin

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 9, 1939

We must stay focused on the bilateral negotiations between the Palestinians and us.

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There are no short cuts, no detours in the Middle East.

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The Knesset was right to limit the president's tenure to seven years.

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I ask the members of the Knesset to be very strict about maintaining the principles of democracy.

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I see myself as a former politician, and in that capacity, I say to other politicians, 'Hold back.'

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One cannot tell the High Court what to adjudicate. They must judge, and then the legislature must act accordingly.

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When we come to the hospital to give birth, we don't come as a Jew or an Arab; we come as a human being.

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Israeli society is comprised of four principal tribes growing closer in size.

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The burden is on the Jewish majority in Israel to prove that the definition of their country as Jewish and democratic is not a contradiction.

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The relationship between the Jews and Arabs is necessary to help build a bridge between Israelis and Palestinians.

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The idea that the State of Israel could be democracy only for its Jewish citizens is unconscionable, and we must find a way to address this.

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It pains me to see the gap that exists in the public's consciousness - religious and secular - between the notion of Israel as a Jewish state and as a democratic state.

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We are one family, and the connection between all Jews, all over the world, is very important to the State of Israel.

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There is one thing on which Arik will make no concessions: terrorism.

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In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurion.

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Arik is suffused with a mystical belief about Jerusalem.

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Whereas, in the personal realm, Sharon is a very sensitive person whose eyes often grow moist, in the national realm, he is entirely without emotions.

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Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.

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Peres came with a worldview. I also came with a worldview that I have not abandoned and that guides me still.

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I know that sometimes politics creates situations in which people want to say particular things for political reasons.

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