Top 38 Quotes by Golda Meir

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.