David Ben-Gurion said:
“No Jew has the right to yield the rights of the Jewish people in Israel. No Jew has the authority to do so. No Jewish body has the authority to do so. Not even the entire Jewish People alive today has the right to yield any part of Israel.”

"Without political power Jews had no chance for survival. Had a Jewish state existed in 1939, even one as small as Israel today, but militarily as competent, the terrible story of six million dead might have had another outcome".
"A Jewish state would have made a difference."

From Lucy Dawidowicz's essay, "Could America Have Rescued Europe 's Jews?"

“Of course, regardless of what you decide, G-d will save His people Israel.
Deliverance comes from Him, and Him alone.
But each of us must do our part to help bring it about.”

Jerusalem Post – Jan 8, 2008
From "Mr. President, the world’s fate is in your hands"
By Michael Freund