Quotes by Shimon Peres

“Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.”

“There isn't a single person in Israel who wants to destroy or harm Egypt. In contrast, there's a whole country that openly wants to destroy Israel, and that's Iran. That is the difference between o...”

“The borders will be based on 1967, with the required security modifications. If we take a certain percentage of the Palestinian land, we will compensate them with land. We will not rob their land. ...”

“We reject attempts to create a similarity between the Holocaust and the Armenian allegations. Nothing similar to the Holocaust occurred. It is a tragedy what the Armenians went through but not a ge...”

“Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.”

“The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.”

“If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent — that's good enough.”

“I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.”

“Your majesty, the king of Saudi Arabia, I was listening to your message. I wish that your voice will become the prevailing voice of the whole region, of all people. It's right, it's needed, it's pr...”

“India represents the new world in a unique sense. Traditionally democracies were trying to bring equality to all walks of life, today there is a change. Democracy wants to enable every country to h...”

“If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact, not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.”

“India and Israel are co-operating on security and intelligence matters because we have a common enemy: terrorism.”

“The way to make peace is not through governments. It is through people.”

“Not long ago, at a meeting of people involved with social policy, Mr. Shimon Peres said that there are two things in the world that have no lobby: the weak and the future. I would recommend that we...”

“He is sinister and slippery, always the man in a hurry.”