I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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.
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
Being seventy is not a sin.
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.
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.
There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
