Abba Eban

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.