Yitzhak Shamir Quotes
Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.
Yitzhak Shamir, 1915–2012, Prime Minister of Israel (Likud), Daily Telegraph London, January 25, 1989
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There are many who argue that in politics the image of being thought a good politician, statesman, leader, is much better than to actually be good.
She was the first person in politics who realized that with TV, the visual image of the background for the President would be a critical factor. However, it would not be until the Ronald Regan Presidency until the process became a critical political craft if not an art form.
The Supreme Court was hearing a redistricting case. The Georgia legislature and voted to approve a map showing the new districts. Some of the districts were so torturously drawn, that two non-contiguous areas were put in the same district and connected by an area in between that was so thin, it only included a state highway and its right of way where there were of course no voters. Justice O’Conner and other justices thought the map itself was sufficient grounds to reject the redistricting plan, though there was much other evidence as well.
Although Einstein never accepted the political positions offered to him, had had many of the skills of able politicians including the visage he presented to cameras.
Yitzhak Shamir was an Israeli politician and the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms, 1983–84 and 1986–1992. Before the establishment of the state of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist militant group Lehi. After the establishment of the Israeli state he served in the Mossad between 1955 and 1965 and as a Knesset Member. He served as the 6th Speaker of the Knesset and as Foreign Affairs Minister. Shamir was the country's third-longest-serving prime minister after David Ben-Gurion and Benjamin Netanyahu.
