Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Ayelet Shaked
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Israeli politician Ayelet Shaked.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
In reality it's pretty obvious that all the citizens of Israel have total civil equality.
Take advantage of the opportunities that come before you in life.
We witness anti-Semitic attacks in the heart of Europe. We hear anti-Semitic slanders in European media. We feel anti-Semitic hatred in the continent that should have learned the lesson.
Campaigning means talking to people in the street, it's important.
I work hard and try to combine a demanding career with motherhood.
We live in a democratic country, and in a democracy freedom of speech is for the people and also for the leaders.
Not only someone with epaulets can be defense minister. We're in a democratic country.
In the past, we saw European leaders speaking against the Jews. Now, we see them speaking against Israel. It is the same anti-Semitism of blood libels, spreading lies, distorting reality and brainwashing people into hating Israel and the Jews.
I don't pick the leader of another party. Likud picked Netanyahu.
I think, as a secular woman who heads a religious party and lives in Tel Aviv, we don't have so many problems on religion and state. Politicians, like Yair Lapid and Avigdor Liberman, are trying to create these problems for all different reasons and interests in order to get more votes.
The Knesset is the parliament that passes the most laws in the world. It's a disaster for the business sector.
I'm doing a lot of mistakes, like every human being.
Anyone who has followed my work knows that I'm an advocate of reducing the power of the High Court of Justice, according to the principle of separation of powers.
The state should say that there is place to maintain the Jewish majority even if it violates rights.
Heading the ideological Right is more important than being in the Likud.
We in the Jewish Home party talk all the time about how Judea and Samaria are our homeland and they are part of Israel, so we are there to stay.
The court's authority must be clear, and it must not blatantly intervene in the decisions of the legislative and executive branches.
Everyone must have their rights, and in fact everyone gets their rights.
Of course in a democracy the government and the citizens have to abide by court rulings, even if we don't like them or don't agree with them.
Israel's Supreme Court is one of the best in the world, and I think that it should stay that way; I don't want to weaken it, I just want to change its approach.
In a unity government, it's very difficult to move anything at all.
When I was in the army in the Golani troops, I served with Zionist and modern Orthodox guys and I became friends with them.
If you get into emotions, then it disturbs your work. Sometimes you focus on what's less important and not the main thing.
I've had it with those women - women! - who seek to undermine the serious work of women in Israeli politics by describing them as 'attractive and elegant' but utterly vacant.
They say that I'm very calculated and not very sensitive - that a regular, average person, there are many things that bother them, and I don't see or feel it.
The justice system is a foundation of our existence as a democratic society. I will not be the one to soften its bite. But I will also not allow it to eat away at the legal authority of the legislative and executive branches. We must find the formula for the right balance between the branches.
The nation state law has nothing controversial.
Britain has national honor. It would not have allowed Israel to meddle in its internal affairs.
No one was talking about a two-state solution until the '90s, then it became an acceptable solution.
Israel is not an anarchy.
I think the people of America just need to listen more to the ministers and MKs from Jewish Home.
There is no contradiction between the fact that Israel has full personal equality of citizenship but extends national rights only to the Jewish people.
Cabinet resolutions approving mass releases of terrorists deal a mortal blow to the status of Israel's judges and courts.
I have been to Holot. I think it's a very good place, very dignified with very good conditions.
Zionism needn't continue, and won't continue, to bow its head to a system of individual rights interpreted in a universal way.
It's not good for Israel to have a Palestinian state in the heart of Israel.
Until I was justice minister, Netanyahu was proud of stopping laws to change the judiciary.
The arrogance of secular Jews regarding the ultra-Orthodox community and their attempt to impose on it a different lifestyle is inappropriate.
We must openly call for the establishment of a Kurdish state that separates Iran from Turkey, one which will be friendly towards Israel.
A woman can do anything... even lead the country.
From a constitutional point of view there is an advantage to democracy and it must be balanced and the Supreme Court should be given another constitutional tool that will also give power to Judaism.
I was always interested in politics.
Israel is a Jewish state. It isn't a state of all its nations. That is, equal rights to all citizens but not equal national rights.
The issue of prohibiting pardons shouldn't be a political one, but a legal and moral one that relates to the details of the specific case before the court.
I went to study electronic engineering and computer science because I was good at math and my father told me it is a very good profession. And so I did it, although it wasn't really my passion. Then I went to work at Texas Instruments.
The Kurds are an ancient, democratic, peace-loving people that have never attacked any country.
I won't let the grudge Netanyahu and those who surround him have against me hurt the country.
In the past, there were groups which felt that the High Court didn't represent them.
The Kurdish people are a partner for the Israeli people.
I don't think I can change the fact that the court can cancel a law, but I think the court should only get involved in extreme issues like human rights violations.
Netanyahu wants to make me and my party out as small, lame and uninfluential.
Segregation is not exclusion.
Not only generals can be politicians, and not only generals can be defense ministers.
The route of the train of Israeli justice must take into account the Jewishness of the state.
My associates and I always allied with Netanyahu in complicated political maneuvers.
Every country, every donation is a different case, and there are many cases where NGOs are getting support from foreign countries for good purposes.
I don't think a country needs to bypass diplomacy, they don't need to attack us under the radar.
I think that 'Judaizing the Galilee' is not an offensive term. We used to talk like that.
I am dedicated to my work, my voters and my family.
We spoke at endless cabinet meetings about the need to stop the flow of money to the families of terrorists and to the terrorists in jails.
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