Words matter. These are the best Reuven Rivlin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We must stay focused on the bilateral negotiations between the Palestinians and us.
I don’t see any possibility of peace if there won’t be open borders between us and our neighbors.
I pray that we learn to live together. That Jerusalem is one, with law and order.
Disagreements will always occur between us, but we all approach them wanting the best for each and every one of us, for the whole people.
The burden is on the Jewish majority in Israel to prove that the definition of their country as Jewish and democratic is not a contradiction.
I wish to strengthen the hand of the Prime Minister and the heads of the security agencies in the unrelenting battle for our right to maintain normal daily life in every place in Israel.
The ability of the president to be perceived as someone with whom all Israelis can identify depends on his ability to avoid being a party to debate.
Israel is proud to be Jordan’s partner and to stand at Jordan’s side in promoting stability and quiet to our entire region.
The Knesset was right to limit the president’s tenure to seven years.
We demand that people don’t deny the Holocaust, and we can’t ignore the tragedy of another nation.
The establishment of Israel was accompanied by much pain and suffering and a real trauma for the Palestinians.
There’s no doubt we’d be very angry if the American president had come to the Knesset and argued against the government of Israel.
We need a broad government which will make decisions, but not a national unity government, because we are divided from within.
I’m not opposed to talking with anyone who is willing to talk.
Peres came with a worldview. I also came with a worldview that I have not abandoned and that guides me still.
Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.
What happens in one region affects people across the world.
The president is the face of the State of Israel around the world: not a representative of a specific ideology but of the collective creativity and history of the Jewish people.
We are one family, and the connection between all Jews, all over the world, is very important to the State of Israel.
The ayatollahs are trying to unite the whole Arab world against Israel by saying that Israel is something that should be brought to an end.
In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurion.
There are many Palestinians, to be diplomatic, who believe there is no way to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, first of all, and there are a lot of people that believe there is no way to recognize Israel at all.
Terror is terror is terror, and it doesn’t matter what nationality that terror belongs to.
Every opinion must be suffered. One must listen to what may be rousing, annoying, even shocking, but it must be done honestly, fairly and with equanimity, respecting the rights of every Member of the Knesset and each faction, guarding the minority in the face of the predatory majority.
One cannot tell the High Court what to adjudicate. They must judge, and then the legislature must act accordingly.
Multiculturalism is a bed of beautiful roses that has some thorns, so we just have to be careful not to get pricked or to prick one another.
A friendship between Germany and Israel didn’t always seem natural.
I won’t intervene in Knesset decisions.
The depth of this conflict, which is more than one hundred years old, requires us to find a way to communicate… so that the residents of the Middle East, Jews and Arabs alike, can live not as if they were forced to live together, but rather destined to live together.
All humanity share a common future, and we must work to try and shape it together. This is our duty, and it is our responsibility to our children and grandchildren.
Our enemy is hatred – the hatred inherent in fundamentalism.
We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situation, even when multiculturalism is difficult.
We must remember that Islam is not an enemy, and we have no war with Islam.
Jerusalem should not tolerate any religious war.
There is a conflict in the Middle East between two entities, and they’re both right, each in their own way.
I believe that our democratic values are also born out of our Jewish faith, a ‘love for the stranger,’ and equality before the law – these are not foreign values: this is Judaism.
There is no, and cannot be, any situation in which we don’t respect the law and the judiciary. It is unacceptable to attack the courts; criticism is allowed, but attacks are not. It shakes the basis of our democracy.
Everyone needs to understand that we were meant to live together in this country. We have to get to know one another; even if we don’t agree, we have to enable each side to express itself.
When we come to the hospital to give birth, we don’t come as a Jew or an Arab; we come as a human being.
It’s preferable for the Palestinians to become citizens of the state than for us to divide the country.
My door will be open to everyone.
Germany remains among the few countries in Europe to acknowledge, officially and nationally, its responsibility for the crimes it led against our people.
The relationship between the Jews and Arabs is necessary to help build a bridge between Israelis and Palestinians.
Jewish and Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem are interlaced one with the other.
