203 Quotes by Ehud Olmert

Israel is prepared for a compromise. The majority of Israelis understand this compromise will be serious, will be meaningful, and will be painful.

When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that's how I am going to continue to do in the future.

I was not interested in being minister of defense or minister of foreign affairs.

The Goldstone Committee was formed in April of 2009, after I was not prime minister. So it was a new political situation.

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

As mayor of Jerusalem, I wanted the government to invest the necessary funds in order to unite the city in an effective manner with full rights for the Palestinians living in Jerusalem, so the world would say, 'Okay, it can work.'

There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.

There is an alliance between Israel and the United States, and it has never been stronger than at the time of George W. Bush.

Abu Mazen has deprived himself of all the practical authorities of government.