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. ”