Words matter. These are the best Tzipi Livni Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I arranged the first meeting between Ariel Sharon and the settlers.
My husband is in branding. He brands places – cities, institutions.
After I retire, I have my own vision, which is not connected to the state of Israel. It’s about me, living near the sea, and maybe writing something about the past.
The reason for the blockade on Gaza was not to punish the Palestinians but to continue to delegitimize Hamas.
I prefer jeans to a suit, sneakers to high heels, markets to malls.
In general, I don’t like formality at all.
On the right of Israel to exist and to defend itself, there is no opposition in Israel.
The Palestinian conflict is the glass ceiling of Israel’s economy.
The state of Israel, and a government under me, will make it a strategic objective to topple the Hamas regime in Gaza. The means for doing this should be military, economic, and diplomatic.
You can’t put your name, recognition, your money in a company without having share in the control.
A romantic relationship requires honesty between a couple.
I believe most of the public should be involved in the election of the leadership.
Israel is a country that reacts vigorously when its citizens are fired upon, which is a good thing.
A leader in any place must ask himself who he identifies with, with which values, and towards what goals.
My responsibility is to ask, ‘How can I serve my ideology and my voters?’
I was born in Israel. My parents came in 1925.
We must draw a distinction between understanding and supporting Israel’s values and existence, and criticising any Israeli government’s policy.
I worked in the Mossad for a few years.
Radical Islamist terror is a crime against the entire free world, including against Israel.
My ideology is not connected to the Palestinians.
I don’t question any American president in terms of his commitment to the security of the state of Israel.
Turkey knows the importance of its ties with Israel; it knows it’s in the same moderate camp with Israel, the moderate Palestinians and other Muslim countries, and the threat to Turkey is not from us.
Relations between countries are built on values and interests and many other things, but at the end of the day, leaders are also only human beings.
There is an essential difference between someone who harms a child on purpose and someone who harms a child by accident during combat in civilian territory.
The role of a leader is to create a reality and not to be influenced by polls.
Everybody wants to live in peace.
I’ve been involved in ties with elements in the Arab world for years now. They wish to establish relations with Israel, but they cannot do so while there is no peace process.
The fact that a terrorist was killed, and it doesn’t matter if it was in Dubai or Gaza, is good news to those fighting terrorism.
For me, it is clear that when it comes to the need of Israel to defend itself, the role of the United States of America is crucial.
Israel is part of the free world led by the United States, no matter what.
I don’t think that everything is a zero-sum game in which, when the president of the United States says something, that means that he is pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli, or vice versa.
The attitude of ‘every nation unto itself’ is a destructive one for the future of Israel.
When you look at the Lebanon-Syria border, you see a porous border despite the fact that you have a U.N. Security Council decision that speaks of an embargo on weapons transfers to Hezbollah.
When it comes to matters of religion and state, Bayit Yehudi is more extreme than the ultra-Orthodox.
Democracy is not only the right to vote, it is also about not resorting to violence in order to reach political goals and respecting agreements signed by former governments.
I believe Israel needs branding. I want that the word ‘Israel’ will relate not just to an Israeli soldier or a camel, but Israel as an advanced liberal society with a strong economy and great people.
I resent the idea that Israel is part of the political agenda in United States’ campaigns, really.
The right to love is granted to anyone.
If Syria wants to be part of the international community, there are some conditions that they have to meet. And the first one is to stop embracing the terrorism.
I’m not a person of mentors.
I was by Ariel Sharon’s side on the day it was decided to form Kadima. It was founded in aim to create a government of hope and responsibility.
Hamas does not represent the national aspirations of the Palestinians. It represents extreme Islamic ideas, which they share with Iran, Hezbollah, and Syria.
I don’t envy my teachers. I used to preach to them.
When we distinguish between Israel’s right to defend itself and settlements, then we legitimize its security needs; when we distinguish between isolated settlements and the blocs, then we legitimize the settlement blocs.
The Israeli public has been brainwashed into believing that its global isolation stems from delegitimization and anti-Semitism.
Netanyahu’s government and its faulty and politicized priorities are leading Israel into bankruptcy.
Sept. 11 was a shock to the whole world.
Supporting the war on terror is not an anti-Palestinian act. It is anti-terror.
We are fighting to keep Israel a democracy – not just in terms of its electoral system but also in terms of its values.
The Iranians are abusing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to gain more support from radical elements in the region.
It’s important to be the gatekeeper against dangerous ideas.
I think we need to change the system of elections in order to give less power to some sectors in Israeli society.
I’m not asking myself, ‘How I can be different from Netanyahu?’ because I am different, and Kadima is different from Likud, by its own nature.
The world cannot afford a nuclear Iran.
The last thing that Israel needs is to be part of the internal agenda in the United States between Republicans and Democrats.
I didn’t go into politics out of concern for the Palestinians but out of concern for Israel.
When I make decisions, I’m not thinking about my parents. I’m thinking about my children.
The Israeli people deserve better than a life in between rounds of violence.
When I was young, I went to the Sinai and worked as a waitress.
I want Israel to have borders. For that, I need a map. I need a map on which our borders are specified.
