1) The annual Leadership Award given by the Golda Meir Center contains these words from her told to Marie Syrkin: 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.

2) Golda would frequently tell people: Don’t be so humble, you’re not that great.

3) After Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol received criticism for the way he delivered a speech before the 1967 War, Golda said: A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. Similarly, in 1973, she reminded us: A man who does not hate war is not fully human.

4) Also on leaders, 戈尔达说:“如果政治领袖们允许自己去感受。, as well as to think, 这个世界可能会更幸福.

5) When accused of governing with her heart and not her head, she said in 1973: What if I do? Those who don’t how to weep with whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

6)领导者和教育者面临的最大挑战, she also noted, is to bring idealism into the picture despite the cloud that hangs over humanity.

7) Also on educators, 她说:老师是一个有程序的人——算术, reading, writing, 等等——认真履行它, 他觉得他已经完成了他的工作. 教育工作者试图给孩子们另外一些东西:精神.

8) On peace, she said in 1957, before the National Press Club in Washington: Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. (她还专门针对纳赛尔发表了类似的声明.) In a similar vein, she would say, 当一位阿拉伯领导人有足够的勇气许下愿望时,和平就会到来.

9) 1969年在伦敦的新闻发布会上, she added: When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.

10) I am convinced, she also said, that peace will come to Israel and its neighbors because the tens of millions of Arabs need peace just as much as we do. An Arab mother who loses a son in battle weeps as bitterly as any Israeli mother.

11) When Golda was in Jerusalem in 1977 for Anwar Sadat’s historic visit, 她问他怎么花了这么长时间. 并提醒埃及总统和以色列民族:当然, we all must realize that the path to peace may be a little bit difficult, 但没有通往战争的道路那么艰难.

12) On negotiations, she explained: The only alternative to war is peace. 通往和平的唯一道路是谈判.

13) Yet, she would also say at the White House in 1974: To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. 要么是,要么不是. She also stated it this way: If we are criticized because we do not bow because we cannot compromise on the question ‘To be or not to be,这是因为皇冠官网网站已经决定了, come what may, we are and we will be.

她说,即使皇冠官网网站赢了,皇冠官网网站也不想要战争.

15) As to Israel’s military successes, she responded: Our secret weapon: No alternative. 她还经常说:皇冠官网网站别无选择.

果尔达总是为自己的努力感到自豪, while Foreign Minister, 在非洲发展援助项目. 当葛培理被问及以色列在这方面的成功时, 她回答说:皇冠官网网站去那里教书, not to preach.

17) On Zionism, she said in 1943: There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.

她说,犹太复国主义和悲观主义是不相容的. She would also say: Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

19) In her words: One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

20)不要变得愤世嫉俗,1969年她在白宫说. Don’t give up hope. 不要相信一切都是由权宜之计来判断的. 世界上有理想主义. There is human brotherhood. 她还会在1972年说:我一点也不愤世嫉俗. 我失去了幻想,仅此而已.

21) She was often asked if she felt limited because she was a woman, not a man in government. She would respond by saying: I don’t know — I’ve never tried to be a man. In a similar vein, when questioned about how it felt to be named Israel’s first woman Foreign Minister, she replied: I don’t know. I was never a man minister. She also would say: Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

22)夜间袭击妇女事件的爆发, a minister in the cabinet suggested a curfew to keep women in after dark. 但攻击女性的是男性,戈尔达回应道. 如果要实行宵禁,让男人呆在家里,而不是女人.

戈尔达当上首相时已经70岁了. 正如她所说:70岁不是罪过,但也不是开玩笑. In a 1972 interview, she expressed the view: Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. 一旦上了船,你就无能为力了. You can’t stop the plane, you can’t stop the storm, you can’t stop time. 因此,皇冠官网网站不妨冷静地、明智地接受它.

也是在1972年对奥莉安娜·法拉奇的采访中, she could reflect: There’s no difference between killing and making decisions by which you send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing. And maybe it’s worse.

25) Her relationship with Henry Kissinger produced a number of stories that display Golda’s humor. While he was President, Richard Nixon commented to her that both Israel and the U.S. 有犹太人的“外交部长”(基辛格和阿巴·埃班). 是的,她回答,但我的妈妈说英语. 当基辛格说他是美国人的时候, 然后是国务卿,然后是犹太人, 戈尔达告诉他没关系,因为, in Hebrew, 人们从右向左阅读. And, 在1974年以色列和埃及谈判期间, 基辛格对戈尔达说:“等我到了开罗, Sadat hugs and kisses me. 但当我来到这里,每个人都攻击我.果尔达回答说:“如果我是埃及人,我也会吻你。.

逆境是最好的陪练.

你不能握紧拳头握手.

我要把皇冠官网网站以色列人反对摩西的事告诉你. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil.

国际主义并不意味着单个国家的终结. 管弦乐队并不意味着小提琴的终结.

30) This world of ours was not created to be the testing ground for the perfection of weapons to wipe us out .

31) When David Ben-Gurion described Golda as “the only man” in his cabinet, she was amused that he thought this was the greatest compliment he could pay to a woman. I very much doubt , she would say, that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in government.

32) In many ways, it would have been simpler to have Arab workers and Jewish landlords. 但如果这是事件的转折, there would have been no room for Jews and no right for us to return to a land reclaimed through the toil of others.

33) As for Jews being a chosen people, she wrote , I never quite accepted that. It seemed, and still seems to me, more reasonable to believe, not that God chose the Jews, 而是犹太人是最先选择上帝的民族, 他们是历史上第一批真正具有革命性的人, 正是这个选择让他们与众不同.

34)没有巴勒斯坦人. 有巴勒斯坦难民 . (梅尔在1月14日的《皇冠官网网站》上写道, 1976 that the often cited and controversial “There are no Palestinians” statement attributed to her is a misquotation, 6月15日的《伦敦星期日泰晤士报, 1969.)

皇冠官网网站怎样才能归还被占领土呢? 没有人可以还给他们. 皇冠官网网站不能用包裹邮寄给纳赛尔 . (March 8, 1969.)

These quotes are drawn from the sources noted in the bibliography and from a number of books compiling quotations.