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Reuven Rivlin [1939-0] Israeli

Rank: 102
Politician, President of Israel

Reuven "Ruvi" Rivlin is an Israeli politician and lawyer who has been President of Israel since 2014. He is a member of the Likud party.

Attitude, Equality, Friendship

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As a rule, whenever I hear about a demographic threat, it comes first of all from a type of thinking that says the Arabs are a threat. And this leads to thinking of transfer or that they should be killed. I am appalled by this kind of talk.		101
It seems to me that many of the belligerent Jewish movements that were built upon hatred of Arabs - and I'm not only talking about Lieberman, but within the Likud as well - grew out of the patronizing socialist attitude that said, 'They'll be there, and we'll be here.'	Attitude	102
There is a conflict in the Middle East between two entities, and they're both right, each in their own way.		103
One could establish a system in one state in which Judea and Samaria are jointly held. The Jews would vote for a Jewish parliament and the Palestinians for an Arab parliament, and we would create a system in which life is shared.		104
I'm a utopianist.		105
I won't intervene in Knesset decisions.		106
I pray that we learn to live together. That Jerusalem is one, with law and order.		107
It's not for the president to determine the arrangements between Israel and the Palestinians, and the Arab world, but to be the bridge between opinions and to facilitate dialogue and understanding.		108
Israel's foreign policy has three points: the relationship with the U.S., the relationship with the U.S., and the relationship with the U.S.		109
There's no doubt we'd be very angry if the American president had come to the Knesset and argued against the government of Israel.		110
I want to thank the American people - on both sides of the aisle - for years of financial, diplomatic, and military support, and for helping us carry the burden of defense.		111
We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situation, even when multiculturalism is difficult.		112
Multiculturalism is a bed of beautiful roses that has some thorns, so we just have to be careful not to get pricked or to prick one another.		113
Everyone needs to understand that we were meant to live together in this country. We have to get to know one another; even if we don't agree, we have to enable each side to express itself.		114
Jerusalem should not tolerate any religious war.		115
Jerusalem is the united capital of Israel. Since 1967, anyone can practice his religion according to his own conscience and complete free will.		116
We have always realized, as Israelis and as Jews, that we are not fighting Islam and thus avoided turning the Temple Mount issue into a war of Jews against Muslims.		117
Jewish and Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem are interlaced one with the other.		118
We demand that people don't deny the Holocaust, and we can't ignore the tragedy of another nation.		119
Disagreements will always occur between us, but we all approach them wanting the best for each and every one of us, for the whole people.		120
I am not someone who will cancel plans because of personal danger, because I'm really not afraid.		121
Terror is terror is terror, and it doesn't matter what nationality that terror belongs to.		122
There is a difficulty in combating the type of terror that is perpetrated by groups of radical Jews. It's terror from within, and it is difficult to bring these perpetrators to justice; we need to create tools in order to combat this style of terrorism.		123
There are many Palestinians, to be diplomatic, who believe there is no way to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, first of all, and there are a lot of people that believe there is no way to recognize Israel at all.		124
We cannot keep the Jewish state without being a democratic state.		125
The ayatollahs are trying to unite the whole Arab world against Israel by saying that Israel is something that should be brought to an end.		126
Germany remains among the few countries in Europe to acknowledge, officially and nationally, its responsibility for the crimes it led against our people.		201
I was born to a Likud which had light; there were no shadows.		202
Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.		203
The establishment of Israel was accompanied by much pain and suffering and a real trauma for the Palestinians.		204
Many of Israel's Arabs, which see themselves as part of the Palestinian population, feel the pain of their brothers across the green line - a pain they feel the state of Israel is responsible for.		205
There's no doubt that our hearts are with the residents of Gaza. We and the whole world are unable to get to a situation in which Gaza can be rehabilitated. There needs to be an international initiative with Israel's participation, in order to bring an end to the enmity against us.		206
I'm not opposed to talking with anyone who is willing to talk.		207
We must remember that Islam is not an enemy, and we have no war with Islam.		208
Our enemy is hatred - the hatred inherent in fundamentalism.		209
All humanity share a common future, and we must work to try and shape it together. This is our duty, and it is our responsibility to our children and grandchildren.		210
What happens in one region affects people across the world.		211
As a Jew, even if you were not born in Poland, the very name, Poland, gives rise to a shuddering in your body and a longing in your heart. This country was the breeding ground for the soul of the Jewish nation, and unfortunately, also grounds to the largest Jewish cemetery.		212
The Jewish journey started in the land of Israel, and it always strove to return there against all odds and all limitations.		213
Our ideals are under the constant threat of extremism, whether in the form of radical Muslim groups or the emergence of other elements seeking to deny the rights and freedoms of others.		214
There is a crisis on the Right. It sees the Jewish and democratic state as a democracy for the Jews. This is something I cannot countenance.		215
Even if the Right says that Um Al-Fahm should be outside Israel, this is impossible.		216
I won't allow any party to evade the question of which leader they support for prime minister.		217
We can establish a Jewish and democratic state, but the burden of proof is on us.		218
The ability of the president to be perceived as someone with whom all Israelis can identify depends on his ability to avoid being a party to debate.		219
The politicization of the presidency would pose a real threat to the institution and its function.		220
All over the Middle East, we face difficult challenges: the ongoing tragedy in Syria, the instability in Iraq, and the jihadist terrorism which dares to speak in the name of Islam, brings so many to seek refuge. The Hashemite Kingdom is facing all these challenges with honor, with dignity, and with great national and human solidarity.		221
Israel is proud to be Jordan's partner and to stand at Jordan's side in promoting stability and quiet to our entire region.		222
A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other's culture without compromising its own.		223
Conflicts, even just ones, which in the end can come at the expense of the State of Israel, are things that we must be very cautious about and hold back on personally.		224
We also need the world, even though many times we don't agree with it.		225
Netanyahu must mend fences with Obama.		226
To come and say about me that I'm destroying Israel, that I hate Israel, that's a bit insulting.		301
United Jerusalem has been and will forever be the capital of the Jewish People.		302
Direct talks is the only possible way to build trust and to resolve the conditions for a peace perspective between Palestinians and Israelis.		303
We must stay focused on the bilateral negotiations between the Palestinians and us.		304
There are no short cuts, no detours in the Middle East.		305
The Knesset was right to limit the president's tenure to seven years.		306
I ask the members of the Knesset to be very strict about maintaining the principles of democracy.		307
I see myself as a former politician, and in that capacity, I say to other politicians, 'Hold back.'		308
One cannot tell the High Court what to adjudicate. They must judge, and then the legislature must act accordingly.		309
When we come to the hospital to give birth, we don't come as a Jew or an Arab; we come as a human being.		310
Israeli society is comprised of four principal tribes growing closer in size.		311
The burden is on the Jewish majority in Israel to prove that the definition of their country as Jewish and democratic is not a contradiction.		312
The relationship between the Jews and Arabs is necessary to help build a bridge between Israelis and Palestinians.		313
The idea that the State of Israel could be democracy only for its Jewish citizens is unconscionable, and we must find a way to address this.		314
It pains me to see the gap that exists in the public's consciousness - religious and secular - between the notion of Israel as a Jewish state and as a democratic state.		315
I believe that our democratic values are also born out of our Jewish faith, a 'love for the stranger,' and equality before the law - these are not foreign values: this is Judaism.	Equality	316
We are one family, and the connection between all Jews, all over the world, is very important to the State of Israel.		317
There is one thing on which Arik will make no concessions: terrorism.		318
In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurion.		319
Arik is suffused with a mystical belief about Jerusalem.		320
Whereas, in the personal realm, Sharon is a very sensitive person whose eyes often grow moist, in the national realm, he is entirely without emotions.		321
Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.		322
Peres came with a worldview. I also came with a worldview that I have not abandoned and that guides me still.		323
I know that sometimes politics creates situations in which people want to say particular things for political reasons.		324
We must immediately find the way to come and say to the U.S., 'Despite the difficult differences of opinion between us, there are no closer friends, and no better allies than you to us, and we to you.'		325
We have many candidates, like in reality television, but we don't really have a leader.		326
The reality is that we only have one person whom the public sees as appropriate to be prime minister, and that's a shame. I think that if there were more, it would be better for everyone, including Netanyahu.		401
Today, there are those who hallucinate that a democratic and Jewish state is only democratic for the Jews.		402
The Palestinians must understand that this is our home, to which we have returned, and we also have to understand that this is the homeland of all those born to it.		403
There are many Palestinians who believe there is no way to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. They call for the right of the return of refugees to Israel - something which is unacceptable for the consensus in Israel and which strikes at the very heart of this issue.		404
All sides must learn to respect one another.		405
There will never be peace unless we have open borders. But that does not mean open on our side and you continue to hit me on the other.		406
We are not fighting against the Palestinian people, and we are not at war with Islam. We are fighting against terrorism.		407
The depth of this conflict, which is more than one hundred years old, requires us to find a way to communicate... so that the residents of the Middle East, Jews and Arabs alike, can live not as if they were forced to live together, but rather destined to live together.		408
My door will be open to everyone.		409
Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of a position different to my own.		410
We need a broad government which will make decisions, but not a national unity government, because we are divided from within.		411
I wish to strengthen the hand of the Prime Minister and the heads of the security agencies in the unrelenting battle for our right to maintain normal daily life in every place in Israel.		412
I don't see any possibility of peace if there won't be open borders between us and our neighbors.		413
There is no, and cannot be, any situation in which we don't respect the law and the judiciary. It is unacceptable to attack the courts; criticism is allowed, but attacks are not. It shakes the basis of our democracy.		414
The president is the face of the State of Israel around the world: not a representative of a specific ideology but of the collective creativity and history of the Jewish people.		415
Every opinion must be suffered. One must listen to what may be rousing, annoying, even shocking, but it must be done honestly, fairly and with equanimity, respecting the rights of every Member of the Knesset and each faction, guarding the minority in the face of the predatory majority.		416
A friendship between Germany and Israel didn't always seem natural.	Friendship	417
It's preferable for the Palestinians to become citizens of the state than for us to divide the country.		418
No nation is immune to anti-Semitism and xenophobia.		419
It can't be 'occupied territory' if the land is your own.		420
I hereby swear, in my name and that of all our descendants, that we will never act against the principle of equal rights, and we will never try and force someone from our land.		421
The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side.		422

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