Quotes from Yair Lapid


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Yesh Atid is a Jewish, religious-secular party. Our DNA is center - both Left and Right. The difference between center-left and center-right is more emotional and hereditary than having to do with what people think about the Palestinians.


If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.


If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.


I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.


I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.


I studied math, and I was terrible at it.


I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.


I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.


I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.


I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.


Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.


I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.


Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.


Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.


Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.


Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.


Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.


Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions.


Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.