Ayelet Shaked Quotes

Judge Sarah Frisch is a wonderful woman, and does an excellent job.

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.

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 route of the train of Israeli justice must take into account the Jewishness of the state.

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

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

When I was in the army in the Golani troops, I served with Zionist and modern Orthodox guys and I became friends with them.

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.

A woman can do anything… even lead the country.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Everyone must have their rights, and in fact everyone gets their 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 think that ‘Judaizing the Galilee’ is not an offensive term. We used to talk like that.

I would rather not meddle in the domestic politics of the United States.

I won’t let the grudge Netanyahu and those who surround him have against me hurt the country.

There is no contradiction between the fact that Israel has full personal equality of citizenship but extends national rights only to the Jewish people.

I’d like to see the haredim become part of the Israeli society.

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.

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

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

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.

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

To anyone who sees himself as right-wing, I say you should vote right-wing.

Segregation is not exclusion.

In the absolute majority of western democracies – elected officials are the ones who appoint the highest bench in the judicial system. There is no reason for us to lag behind.

In a unity government, it’s very difficult to move anything at all.

The nation state law has nothing controversial.

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

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.

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.

The arrogance of secular Jews regarding the ultra-Orthodox community and their attempt to impose on it a different lifestyle is inappropriate.

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.

If you get into emotions, then it disturbs your work. Sometimes you focus on what’s less important and not the main thing.

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

It’s one of the most important things in life to provide someone with a job.

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.

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.

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