The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.
Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
We attacked selected military targets of the P.L.O. Around, civilians were hurt, I don't want to deny it. Very regrettable, very regrettable. We regret it deeply.
This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.
I struggled quite a long time with my backhand, which was one of my best weapons before my surgery.
But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.
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