Quotes by Shimon Peres, page 2

Shimon Peres - israeli statesman

Also called: Szymon Perski.

Was born on 02 aug 1923.

There was one occasion when I was very young eight years or seven years old that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.

Quote by Shimon Peres about old, olderness, time

They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents, I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.

Quote by Shimon Peres about judgment, parents, word, thinking, nothing, man

We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine, we asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.

Quote by Shimon Peres about work, salary, workers

What should be the future of Israel, is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part.

Quote by Shimon Peres about future, state, reason

When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

Quote by Shimon Peres about opinion, things