Yair Lapid Quotes
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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
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There is a clear interest within ISIS to drag Israel into a war with them. If they do so, they will be able to paint Israel as having an alliance with the states fighting against them.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.
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Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.
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When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.
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As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.
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The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
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Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks.
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The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.
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The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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How can Israel say that everyone is equal before the law - that you're equal before the law - when the law defines Judaism as the cultural, national and legislative basis for the state?
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If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you.
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I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it.
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I feel we're at risk that a whole generation of young Israelis, who went to the army, work hard, pay taxes, one day will look around and say, 'Hey, this country is going nowhere.'
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Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
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In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.
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An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.
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Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then.
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Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.