Quotes from Ehud Olmert


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


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?


Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?


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


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


Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.


Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government.


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


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


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


I know I'm unpopular.


I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.


A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.


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


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.


There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.


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


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


Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.


I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.