Ehud Barak Quotes

#1. At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap.

Elliott Abrams

#2. Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.

Ehud Barak

#3. The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

Ehud Barak

#4. I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonistic than Ehud Olmert, or Yitzhak Rabin or Shimon Peres.

Ehud Barak

#5. God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.

Victoria Osteen

#6. If I were a Palestinian at the right age, I would have joined one of the terrorist organizations at a certain stage.

Ehud Barak

#7. Until the wolf shall lay with lamb, we'd better be the wolves.

Ehud Barak

#8. I'm obsessed with lighting. I'm constantly shopping for different lightbulbs. I love rainbow lightbulbs. And also, one should not live without dimmers. Life is all about lighting.

Stevie Nicks

#9. I don't do anything to impress anyone, quite successfully I can tell you.

Ehud Barak

#10. We were busy judging everyone's spiritual state. We had a lot to do. Only God might be able to see their hearts and innermost thoughts, but we had a pretty good idea of how it was going to go for plenty of folks on the Judgment Day. Not so well.

Frank Schaeffer

#11. Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.

Jim Rogers

#12. I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Ehud Barak

#13. In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.

Ehud Barak

#14. If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.

Ehud Barak

#15. Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.

Ehud Barak

#16. At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of brotherhood should go out from here.

Ehud Barak

#17. But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.

Ehud Barak

#18. I don't feel opportunistic ever, in anything.

Ehud Barak

#19. We want peace, but not at any price.

Ehud Barak

#20. But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us - the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us.

Ehud Barak

#21. As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.

Mohammed Omar

#22. There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage ... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

Ehud Barak

#23. I want to study, to write to live and have a good time.

Ehud Barak

#24. Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.

Ruby Wax

#25. All this information," I say. "Yet the world is more mysterious than ever.

Adam Johnson

#26. The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace' ... A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with.

Ehud Barak

#27. If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force ...

Ehud Barak

#28. A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

Milton Friedman

#29. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

Brene Brown

#30. He begged Angie but the words were cut short by the strap and the dial turning up again and the sound in the air like cracking ice and shredding paper and static.

V.E Schwab

#31. I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

Ehud Barak

#32. We are talking about a major change in reality that has to come about, ... We are not idiots. If it turns out that this situation where there is no partner (in peace) remains the same, then we will know what to do.

Ehud Barak

#33. Is it rational to believe in a bad God? Anyway, in a God so bad as all that? The Cosmic Sadist, the spiteful imbecile?

C.S. Lewis

#34. His knowledge of war has fed a passion for peace.

Bill Clinton