Yair Lapid Quotes

"Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions."

"There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions."

"I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis."

"When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him."

"If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then."

"If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy."

"One of the hardest things is to create hope."

"Facts cannot be replaced by opinion."

"I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts."

"People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews."

"One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members."

"As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers."

"Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation."

"Social revolutions are never simple."

"I do not deal with threats and ultimatums."

"I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past."

"Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen."

"Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech."

"Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road."

"I studied math, and I was terrible at it."

"The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life."