 Better to be disliked than pitied. |
| Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow. |
| Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. |
| The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. |
| A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. |
| I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. |
| Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals. |
| It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. |
| A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement. |
| History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. |
| One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all. |
| You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. |
| If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. |
| Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. |
| His ignorance is encyclopedic. |
