Top 66 Haim Saban Quotes

Donald Trump is a disaster. He is a bully who doesn’t have the curiosity to understand the issues; he contradicts himself repeatedly; his views of the world are an unmitigated disaster for America and for the American people, and I believe that all of this will become clearer with time.

I will acknowledge that Israel would not exist were it not for the United States. For Israel, that relationship is vital. It’s important for the U.S., but it is vital for Israel.

Profiling, listening in on anyone and everybody who looks suspicious, or interviewing Muslims in a more intense way than interviewing Christian refugees is all acceptable.

If ‘Bio-Man’ dies, maybe I’ll go on and work on something that becomes the next ‘Wheel of Fortune.’

I believe that the talents of Static and Ben-El will speak to music lovers around the world.

For me, bringing the American president closer to the people of Israel is a life goal.

Between friends, there is room for disagreement.

Hillary has been a steadfast defender of Israel’s interests. She will be a fantastic president for the U.S., an incredible world leader and one under whom the relationship with the U.S. and Israel will be significantly reinforced.

When people would ask me what do you do, I’d say I make music for cartoons. I could see the compassion in their eyes. I gotta tell you, there was no room for compassion: I was making money hand over fists.

The brands that you can put on children’s pajamas, ones that give moms a feeling of warmth and comfort, are in short supply.

I do not believe that President Trump is a Nazi or anti-Semite.

Bill Clinton somehow managed to be revered and adored by both the Palestinians and the Israelis. Obama has managed to be looked at suspiciously by both.

Since Hamas took over, nothing has happened that is good for Gaza. They keep doing the same thing over and over, hoping for a different result. The problem is they have an ideological movement that considers Tel Aviv a settlement.

As a longstanding Democrat who has supported and defended President Obama on his treatment of Israel throughout his presidency, I am deeply disturbed by the Administration’s decision not to veto UN Security Council Resolution 2334 and Secretary Kerry’s subsequent one sided speech.

Huggable lamb that I am, people tell me I’m a tough negotiator.

I’ve paid a lot of taxes… with a smile.

I believe that all refugees coming from Syria – a war-torn country that ISIS calls home – regardless of religion require additional scrutiny before entering the United States.

I just want to be Haim Saban. That’s all. I don’t want to change anything in my life.

You want to be free and dead? I’d rather be not free and alive.

I don’t know how to read music. You pick your guitar, you start playing chords and make up a melody that comes out of your head.

Extreme Islam is not just an Iraqi or Syrian problem. It is a problem for the Western and industrialized world, too.

I don’t play golf and I don’t collect stamps. I don’t ride horses. I don’t go mountain hiking, I don’t go star gazing. I don’t do any of that.

You manage one band and you manage two bands and then you build a business around that.

You watch the pennies, and the dollars take care of themselves.

With U.S. support, Israel has developed a cutting-edge missile defense system that one day may be used to guard America, just as Israeli technology protects the vehicles that U.S. soldiers drive in Afghanistan.

With the very rapid expansion of distribution platforms, we want to be in the supply chain with as many types of programs as we can.

My father worked in a toy store. He used to give toys to the head of police when he would shop for his kids. One day the police head came in and told my father, ‘You’re on the list. Within two weeks, we’re going to come and arrest you.’ So within two weeks we got the heck out of there.

The idea of Israel as a start-up nation – everybody knows that. And Israel is also a creative nation.

Mitt Romney claims Mr. Obama has ‘thrown allies like Israel under the bus,’ but in fact the president has taken concrete steps to make Israel more secure – a commitment he has described as ‘not negotiable.’

Fauda’ is amazing. It is beyond amazing.

I’m fully supportive in principle for the government to do the maximum to help the people that need help.

Marriages break up over renovating a house. Really, they do.

The more devices that can show video that generates revenue for content owners, the merrier.

I am neither a lawyer nor a tax expert, in fact my formal education ended when I finished high school.

Whatever I can be helpful with, I’d like to be helpful with.

I’m a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.

I believe that, at the end of the day, the American people are going to do the right thing for America and for the world.

If the Arabs start loving their children more than they hate the Jews, then maybe we will have an opportunity for some sort of dialogue, some sort of peace.

I want to see a universal health care system.

Oliver Stone should be given a helping hand – indeed, a vigorous shove – into the land of forced retirement. There, in the professional wilderness where he belongs, standing on a splintered soapbox right next to Mel Gibson’s, he can preach his anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism into the wind.

On the issues of security and terrorism I am a total hawk.

To be honest with you, I want my opinion of Trump out there. I think that he is a danger to America.

I was an immigrant twice, once from Egypt to Israel. Israel opened her arms and took me in. And America opened her arms, and I’m an American citizen now.

There are those who would say that those who are for two states and dividing Jerusalem are anti-Israel. In that case then, I’m anti-Israel.

All Jews in America that care about the U.S.-Israel alliance know they can sleep peacefully under a Biden presidency.

I’m not a good musician, but I did my homework and I knew this was my way out of profound poverty.

Kids in Spandex battling rubber monsters? It sounds beautiful. It does.

Be on the lookout for Saban Brands on a constant basis.

I have zero interest in being big. Biggest, I have an interest.

The fact of the matter is that these people from many different cultures work together and create content that also holds appeal to multiple audiences outside of Israel.

Israel necessarily has a thinner margin of security than the United States, given differences in size, geography and military capabilities.

I really like the weather in California.

Some people, no matter how much money they have, they want to keep it for themselves.

Generally in Europe – and I am not referring to a specific broadcaster – coverage of the Israeli-Arab conflict is one-sided.

Fostering the conditions for peace, security, and prosperity for both Israelis and Palestinians is a core American interest.

In France I became something that I’d never been before: a record producer.

I used to have a standing as a cartoon schlepper, now I’m only a former cartoon schlepper.

I’ve never been a vice president. Ever. Always chairman.

I’m a Democrat for the reinforcement of the Patriot Act. It’s not strong enough.

President Obama has raised so much money and will raise so much money through the Internet, more than anybody before him. And he frankly doesn’t, I believe, need any of my donations.

Gut is many times more important than brain.

Film is a natural progression for Saban Capital Group with existing interests already in television, media and brands.

From playing bass guitar in a covers band in Israel… to my various partnerships with media companies, investment companies, governments etc. all over the world, I’ve been extremely lucky.

Most of Hollywood is informed in a very superficial way, only based on what they see on this television channel or the other, or in this newspaper or the other.

When the first President Bush had disagreements with Israel over its settlement policy, he threatened to withhold loan guarantees from Israel. Mr. Obama has had his own disagreements with Mr. Netanyahu over the settlers but has never taken such a step.

Everywhere I go I have a guitar, even when I travel, I take a guitar with me, this is how I get my head straight.