Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist? Ehud Olmert Read Quote
I’m not in the most comfortable position, but I think my government is very stable, perhaps more stable than any government in modern Israeli history. Ehud Olmert Read Quote
Israel stands proudly at the forefront of international achievement. The world’s leading corporations – Google, Intel and Motorola, to name but a few – maintain research and development facilities here, and our technology start-ups continue to be acquired by the likes of AOL, eBay and IBM. Ehud Olmert Read Quote
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. Ehud Olmert Read Quote
I have reached a conclusion that when we have to make a choice between greater Israel or a Jewish democratic state – and we have to make this choice, it is inevitable – then my choice is a Jewish democratic country. Ehud Olmert Read Quote
It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran. Ehud Olmert Read Quote
Promoting tolerance and human dignity is one of mankind’s unfinished challenges. Ehud Olmert Read Quote
There is an alliance between Israel and the United States, and it has never been stronger than at the time of George W. Bush. Ehud Olmert Read Quote
There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel’s existential issues than in the Oval Office. Ehud Olmert Read Quote
