Ehud Olmert
Ehud Olmert
Ehud Olmert; born 30 September 1945) is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He served as Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009 and before that as a cabinet minister from 1988 to 1992 and from 2003 to 2006. Between his first and second stints as a cabinet member, he served as mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 September 1945
CountryIsrael
country
I love my country more than anything else.
country growing-up successful
Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?
country islamic russia
There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.
prime responsibility
Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.
advise government israel negotiate sit terrorist
I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.
doctors healthy
My doctors say I am very healthy.
iran government terrorist
Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government.
dream desire missions
There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.
israel ceasefire
There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.
israel iran president
When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.
thinking israel violent
I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.
war iraq impact
I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.
thinking israel differences
Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?
retirement thinking ramifications
I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.