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" For me, Arik Sharon - I remember his courage and inspiration. I want to remember him the way he really was, not as an aging 80-year-old man living in bed helpless and unconscious. "

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" The dreadful terrorism perpetrated by Palestinian terrorist organizations has affected thousands of Israeli citizens, has destroyed families, and has tried to disrupt the lives of the citizens of Israel. "

Ehud Olmert

Israel

Citizens

Terrorism

" I always wake up early Saturday morning, and I have a little bit more time, so I go to the gym. "

" I'm not saying it was wrong to intervene in Kosovo. "

" I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it. "

Ehud Olmert

Interest

Thought

" The situation of any leader in the Middle East is not easy. "

" I know I'm unpopular. "

Ehud Olmert

Know

Unpopular

" Assad is the president of Syria. He enjoys fairly effective control over his country. "

" Don't fall in love with everything that you may have read and everything that you may have heard from any political leader, including myself. "

" The newspapers are always reminding the public that I am an unpopular prime minister. "

Ehud Olmert

Prime Minister

I Am

" The values of democracy, brotherhood, and freedom that constitute the building blocks of American society are also shared by Israeli society, together with the faith in man's power and ability to change and influence his surroundings. "

" What's the logic of investing millions in agriculture if it will not pay off? "

" Abu Mazen told me he does not want to change the demographics of Israel. "

Ehud Olmert

Want

Israel

" I don't expect to be coddled, but I'm also a human being. "

" Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government. "

" It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran. "

" I want to separate from the Palestinians. I want them to have their independent, separate state on a contiguous territory, and I want Israel to exist, of course, as a Jewish state in its own territory, as an independent state in its own territory. The Palestinian state, the Israeli state, separate. This is my dream. "

" Israel has the power to protect itself and its citizens. "

" Peace is important for Israel. "

" Before I became prime minister, as mayor of Jerusalem, I became world-renowned because of my fight for the unity of Jerusalem. "

" The fundamental interest - long-range strategic interest - of the state of Israel is that we will have the international bodies and primarily the United Nations recognize the two-state solution, so that there will never be any doubt as to the right of Israel to have its own Jewish independent state. "

" I have to make sure that I am doing the right thing. I can't afford to make any mistake. "

Ehud Olmert

Mistake

Doing The Right Thing

" There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons. "

" When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried. "

" Palestinian violence is not a response to the capture of the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian nationalism's roots are not so shallow. "

" Promoting tolerance and human dignity is one of mankind's unfinished challenges. "

" In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions. "

" From the end of 2006 until the end of 2008 I think I met with Abu Mazen more often than any Israeli leader has ever met any Arab leader. I met him more than 35 times. They were intense, serious negotiations. "

" Mofaz was elected to head Kadima since the party had been shattered. "

" When public figures write memoirs, there is always some indecision regarding how much they want to write of things as they were and how much they want to cut corners to avoid riling up others. I decided to write my memoirs exactly as they were, and I will not digress - not when things are ill at ease and not when they are comfortable. "

" The history of the Zionist enterprise is well-known: surrounded and outnumbered by hostile neighbours, the nascent Israel was forced to defend itself against invasion and certain destruction. "