Golda Meir — "We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon — no a…"

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

"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 eithe…"

"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."

"It is not the business of government to make people happy. It is the business of government to make people secure."

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