Shimon Peres Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.”

“I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.”

“If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out.”

“What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?”

“I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.”

“The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.”

“When I look at the record of President Obama concerning the major issue security I think it's a highly satisfactory record from Israeli point of view.”

“The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.”

“He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.”

“I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.”