Reuven Rivlin Quotes

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Reuven Rivlin

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 9, 1939

We must immediately find the way to come and say to the U.S., 'Despite the difficult differences of opinion between us, there are no closer friends, and no better allies than you to us, and we to you.'

Reuven Rivlin

We have many candidates, like in reality television, but we don't really have a leader.

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The reality is that we only have one person whom the public sees as appropriate to be prime minister, and that's a shame. I think that if there were more, it would be better for everyone, including Netanyahu.

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Today, there are those who hallucinate that a democratic and Jewish state is only democratic for the Jews.

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The Palestinians must understand that this is our home, to which we have returned, and we also have to understand that this is the homeland of all those born to it.

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There will never be peace unless we have open borders. But that does not mean open on our side and you continue to hit me on the other.

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We are not fighting against the Palestinian people, and we are not at war with Islam. We are fighting against terrorism.

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The depth of this conflict, which is more than one hundred years old, requires us to find a way to communicate... so that the residents of the Middle East, Jews and Arabs alike, can live not as if they were forced to live together, but rather destined to live together.

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My door will be open to everyone.

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Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of a position different to my own.

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We need a broad government which will make decisions, but not a national unity government, because we are divided from within.

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I wish to strengthen the hand of the Prime Minister and the heads of the security agencies in the unrelenting battle for our right to maintain normal daily life in every place in Israel.

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I don't see any possibility of peace if there won't be open borders between us and our neighbors.

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There is no, and cannot be, any situation in which we don't respect the law and the judiciary. It is unacceptable to attack the courts; criticism is allowed, but attacks are not. It shakes the basis of our democracy.

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The president is the face of the State of Israel around the world: not a representative of a specific ideology but of the collective creativity and history of the Jewish people.

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It's preferable for the Palestinians to become citizens of the state than for us to divide the country.

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No nation is immune to anti-Semitism and xenophobia.

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It can't be 'occupied territory' if the land is your own.

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I hereby swear, in my name and that of all our descendants, that we will never act against the principle of equal rights, and we will never try and force someone from our land.

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