Shimon Peres Quotes

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
Shimon Peres

Learning, Learned, Knew

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.
Shimon Peres

Finance, Night, Decisions

If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out.
Shimon Peres

Fact, Tax, Worked

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.
Shimon Peres

Science, Technology, Greatest

In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.
Shimon Peres

Country, Order, System

Israel has its attractions. It's the most dramatic country in the world. Everybody's engaged. Everybody argues. When I leave Israel, I get a little bit bored, you know?
Shimon Peres

Bored, Country, Leave

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.
Shimon Peres

Change, Peace, Nature

Israel's doors are open to collaboration with Bulgaria.
Shimon Peres

Open, Israel, Doors

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.
Shimon Peres

Made, Young, Problems

Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned.
Shimon Peres

Friendship, Deep, Remember

Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.
Shimon Peres

Why, Afraid, Israel

Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.
Shimon Peres

Against, Language, Started

My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.
Shimon Peres

Freedom, Heart, Struggle

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.
Shimon Peres

Trust, Government, Two

One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.
Shimon Peres

Important, Economy, Decide

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.
Shimon Peres

Against, Knows, United

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.
Shimon Peres

Peace, Freedom, Doubt

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.
Shimon Peres

Peace, War, Real

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.
Shimon Peres

Control, Cannot, Social

The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.
Shimon Peres

Peace, Others, Economy

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
Shimon Peres

History, Greatest, Whatever

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.
Shimon Peres

Women, Freedom, Food

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
Shimon Peres

Politics, Problem, Poverty

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.
Shimon Peres

Someone, Saying, Necessary

There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.
Shimon Peres

Time, Through, Young

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Nationality: Israeli

Type: Statesman

Born: August 21, 1923

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