Ayelet Shaked Quotes

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.

I was always a right-wing girl as far back as I can remember.

Not only someone with epaulets can be defense minister. We’re in a democratic country.

I think that ‘Judaizing the Galilee’ is not an offensive term. We used to talk like that.

Campaigning means talking to people in the street, it’s important.

My associates and I always allied with Netanyahu in complicated political maneuvers.

The Knesset has balances that will not allow it to pass legislation that would destroy democracy from within.

In reality it’s pretty obvious that all the citizens of Israel have total civil equality.

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.

The nation state law has nothing controversial.

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.

Naftali Bennett and I have a method in life: We believe in seizing opportunities.

Britain has national honor. It would not have allowed Israel to meddle in its internal affairs.

I remember when I was very young, perhaps 8-years old, I saw a debate between Shimon Peres and Yitzchak Shamir and I really liked Shamir. So I think since then, even though I was just a child, I’ve considered myself right-wing.

Not only generals can be politicians, and not only generals can be defense ministers.

Netanyahu wants to make me and my party out as small, lame and uninfluential.

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.

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.

I just want to faithfully represent the public that voted for me and diligently work for all the people in Israel. If I can do that, I don’t care what anyone says about me.

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.

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.

The governments that were in power before Naftali Bennett and I went into politics, before the Jewish Home party gained strength, were right-wing governments that carried on with the policies of the left.

Israel is not an anarchy.

Until I was justice minister, Netanyahu was proud of stopping laws to change the judiciary.

I have been to Holot. I think it’s a very good place, very dignified with very good conditions.

The Kurds are an ancient, democratic, peace-loving people that have never attacked any country.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the public is entitled to know what the legal views of a Supreme Court candidate are.

In the past, there were groups which felt that the High Court didn’t represent them.

I want to establish a right-wing government.

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.

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.

I won‘t let the grudge Netanyahu and those who surround him have against me hurt the country.

Heading the ideological Right is more important than being in the Likud.

Cabinet resolutions approving mass releases of terrorists deal a mortal blow to the status of Israel’s judges and courts.

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.

Around us in the Middle East there is total chaos. I’m not willing to give up on my land for this chaos.

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.

I work hard and try to combine a demanding career with motherhood.

I don’t pick the leader of another party. Likud picked Netanyahu.

No one was talking about a two-state solution until the ’90s, then it became an acceptable solution.

I think the people of America just need to listen more to the ministers and MKs from Jewish Home.

I don’t think a country needs to bypass diplomacy, they don’t need to attack us under the radar.

The court’s authority must be clear, and it must not blatantly intervene in the decisions of the legislative and executive branches.

The state should say that there is place to maintain the Jewish majority even if it violates rights.

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.

Every country, every donation is a different case, and there are many cases where NGOs are getting support from foreign countries for good purposes.

Zionism needn’t continue, and won’t continue, to bow its head to a system of individual rights interpreted in a universal way.

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.

It’s not good for Israel to have a Palestinian state in the heart of Israel.

There are differences between the Right and the Likud.