Shimon Peres Quotes
1923–2016 Israel
Shimon Peres (2 August 1923 - 28 September 2016) was a Polish-born Israeli statesman. He was the ninth President of Israel from 2007 to 2014.
Also known as: Peres, Shimon
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Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.
India and Israel are co-operating on security and intelligence matters because we have a common enemy: terrorism.
If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent — that's good enough.
I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact, not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.
The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.
The way to make peace is not through governments. It is through people.
Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.