Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government. I don't need the government.
Shimon PeresGovernments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future.
Shimon PeresIn many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.
Shimon PeresThe older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.
Shimon Peres