Top 66 Ehud Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Ehud

#1. If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.

Dennis Ross

#2. I wanted to escape, Ehud, my mouth constantly starved for your mouth, life was splendor and marvel, unparalleled glimmer when you touched me, and sinister and hiccuping and nothingness when you were abscent

Hilda Hilst

#3. After Ehud, Shamgar son of Anath became judge. He delivered Israel by striking down 600 Philistines with an oxgoad.

Anonymous

#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. Ehud was tall and strong and was always quiet. Lots of people thought that Ehud was quiet because he was stupid. That wasn't true. He may not have been the smartest kid on the block, but he was no moron either.

Etgar Keret

#6. 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

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

Ehud Barak

#8. The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

Ehud Olmert

#9. Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian ones.

Ehud Olmert

#10. There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.

Ehud Olmert

#11. We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are
tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want that
we will be able to live in an entirely different environment of
relations with our enemies.

Ehud Olmert

#12. For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

Ehud Olmert

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

Ehud Barak

#14. When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.

Ehud Olmert

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

Ehud Barak

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

Ehud Barak

#17. How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.

Ehud Olmert

#18. Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.

Ehud Olmert

#19. In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions.

Ehud Olmert

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

Ehud Barak

#21. There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.

Ehud Olmert

#22. Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.

Ehud Olmert

#23. There were certain people who were out to get me. I know who those people were. They exist, believe me. They know that I know. They spent millions of dollars in order to try to get rid of me. I'm happy they lost most of their money.

Ehud Olmert

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

Ehud Barak

#25. My doctors say I am very healthy.

Ehud Olmert

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

Ehud Barak

#27. I sometimes feel tired. But there are so many reasons for being tired.

Ehud Olmert

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Ehud Barak

#32. Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.

Ehud Olmert

#33. I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

Ehud Olmert

#34. Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Ehud Olmert

#35. I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

Ehud Olmert

#36. It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.

Ehud Olmert

#37. Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government.

Ehud Olmert

#38. I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.

Ehud Olmert

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

Bill Clinton

#40. Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

Ehud Olmert

#41. I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

Ehud Olmert

#42. 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

#43. I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.

Ehud Olmert

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

Ehud Barak

#45. I don't want to block every contact with the Palestinians, I think that would be a mistake, and I think that Abu Mazen has an independent status as democratically elected head of the Palestinian people, and it's important if I will talk with him.

Ehud Olmert

#46. The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

Ehud Olmert

#47. 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

#48. When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.

Ehud Olmert

#49. 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

#50. Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.

Ehud Olmert

#51. Peace is important for Israel.

Ehud Olmert

#52. I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.

Ehud Olmert

#53. A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.

Ehud Olmert

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

Ehud Barak

#55. 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

#56. Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?

Ehud Olmert

#57. If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished,

Ehud Olmert

#58. I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.

Ehud Olmert

#59. 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