"I have been called the only man in my cabinet. I have always thought that was a compliment."

"I don't understand why people are so surprised that I'm a woman. I've been a woman all my life."

"I never would have believed in 1948 that I would live to see a woman prime minister of Israel."

"If we have to choose between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image."

"We are a small country, and we have to be tough."