Edgar Bronfman, Sr. Quotes:

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

Topics: Vitality, Making Money, Deprivation, Gripping

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palins ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

source: - "Israel’s Best Interest is a Morally Strong America" by Edgar Bronfman, Sr., www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2008.

Topics: Running, Ignorance, Choices, Mccain

Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.

source: - "The Regional Economics of Peace" by Edgar M. Bronfman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

Topics: Opportunity, Agribusiness, Fields

Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.

source: - "The Impact of Israel’s Internal Politics" by Edgar M. Bronfman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2010.

Topics: Believe, Home, Goal

The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.

source: - "Middle East Peace Begins in the Classroom" by Edgar M. Bronfman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

Topics: Hate, Home, Evil, Jewish National, Anti Semitic

Contrary to many of the rumors and innuendo in circulation, I wholeheartedly believe that Obama views Israels security as absolute.

Topics: Believe, Israel, Views

I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.

source: - "Edgar Bronfman — Our Moses of the 20th Century" by Rabbi Jason Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 23, 2013.

Topics: Skins, Jew, Mines

Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.

source: - "The Arab Role in Making Peace" by Edgar Bronfman, Sr., www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2010.

Topics: Support, West, Economic, Fledglings

I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.

source: - "Passover with the Bronfmans" by John Ortved, www.newyorker.com. March 25, 2013.

Topics: Civilization, Sabbath

In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.

source: - "Edgar Bronfman, philanthropist and Jewish communal leader, dies at 84". www.jta.org. December 21, 2013.

Topics: Term, Jew

In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.

source: - "Peacemaking Demands Peacemakers" by Edgar Bronfman, Sr., www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

Topics: Business Leadership, Crucial

A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.

source: - "The Arab Role in Making Peace" by Edgar M. Bronfman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2010.

Topics: Two, Goal, Nukes, Israeli Palestinian Conflict, Regions