quotes about Middle East
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I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
-- Abdallah II -
I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
-- Abdallah II -
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
-- Adam Michnik -
One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal -
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I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.
-- Alcee Hastings -
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
-- Alexander Haig -
[There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], "namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state.
-- Ali KhameneiSource : "Iranian Leader Urges Destruction of Israel". The Spokesman-Review, January 01, 2000.
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Israel Is A Hideous Entity In the Middle East Which Will Undoubtedly Be Annihilated.
-- Ali KhameneiSource : Khamenei.ir @khamenei_ir, twitter.com. September 02, 2010.
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I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.
-- Andy Serkis -
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.
-- Angelina Jolie -
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On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.
-- Anthony ShadidSource : "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.
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One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the scriptures contain all the knowledge required to deal with the problems of contemporary society.
-- Arnold Beichman -
Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.
-- Benigno Aquino III -
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You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.
-- Chris Matthews -
Things were very different back in 1992. There was unrest in the Middle East, we had a gridlocked Congress, and everybody was talking about Bill Cosby.
-- Craig Ferguson -
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
-- Dan Quayle -
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
-- Daniel Barenboim -
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Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.
-- David Hackworth -
The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.
-- David Horowitz -
As I searched the atlas for somewhere to run to, Hugh made a case for his old stomping grounds. His first suggestion was Beirut, where he went to nursery school. His family left there in the midsixties and moved to the Congo. After that, it was Ethiopia, and then Somalia, all fine places in his opinion. 'Let's save Africa and the Middle East for when I decide to quit living,' I said.
-- David Sedaris -
There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.
-- Deng Xiaoping -
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In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.
-- Dominique de VillepinSource : Interview with John Thornhill, Peggy Hollinger and Martin Arnold, www.ft.com. February 2, 2007.
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I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.
-- Edward LuckSource : "Interview with Edward Luck, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General". UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. August 1, 2011.
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It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar.
-- Edward Said -
Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.
-- Ehud Olmert -
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
-- Elliott Abrams -
On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.
-- Elliott Abrams -
I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.
-- Francois Hollande -
These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.
-- Frank Carlucci -
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
-- Golda Meir -
Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil.
-- Golda Meir -
I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.
-- Hans Blix -
There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.
-- Helen McCloy -
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I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.
-- Helen Thomas -
One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.
-- Henry A. Kissinger -
We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.
-- Hosni MubarakSource : "Mubarak: Arabs to Fight 'Scourge of Terrorism'". Joint News Conference with President Bush, edition.cnn.com. June 03, 2003.
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Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.
-- James Buchan -
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Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.
-- James Buchan -
...if [the 9/11/01 attacks] had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots in twenty minute and they wouldn't have worried about the consequences because there would not have been any because the remaining terrorist states would have said 'we get the message.'
-- James Woods -
The price of oil is rising because of all the unrest in the Middle East. And the unrest in Wisconsin is causing the price of cheese to go through the roof.
-- Jay Leno -
Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.
-- Jeff Goodell -
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Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.
-- Jerome Corsi -
A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
-- Jimmy Wales -
The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
-- Joe Biden -
For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.
-- John Conyers -
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We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.
-- John F. Kerry -
The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.
-- John Keegan -
As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.
-- John M. McHugh -
Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.
-- John Major -
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Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.
-- Jonathan Krohn -
Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.
-- Juan Cole -
We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.
-- Karl Rove -
Ramadan typically brings a spike in violence in Middle East. I get grumpy when I don't eat - but I don't blow things up. Religion of peace?
-- Katie HopkinsSource : Twitter post from Jun 29, 2014
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A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.
-- Kay Granger -
People killing each other in the Middle East is not news. People not killing each other in the Middle East is news.
-- Kelvin MacKenzie -
Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home.
-- Kenny Marchant -
The U.S. alleges it wants to democratize [the Middle East] whilst it seeks to reverse election results not legally or through polls, but by force, fostering chaos and supporting, financing and arming the corrupt.
-- Khaled Mashal -
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Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and to have sovereignty. All this is impossible without an end to the occupation.
-- Khaled Mashal -
It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.
-- King Hussein I -
So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.
-- Lee H. Hamilton -
The consequence could be that we would have an escalation that would take place that would not only involve many lives, but I think it could consume the Middle East in a confrontation and a conflict that we would regret.
-- Leon Panetta -
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Why is it that any technological and scientific achievement reached in the Middle East regions is translated into and portrayed as a threat to the Zionist regime? Is not scientific R&D one of the basic rights of nations.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
The Israeli regime is a tool in the hands of Zionists to control the Middle-East and the entire world.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
-- Mandy Patinkin -
Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
-- Mandy Patinkin -
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there’s too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can’t make peace.
-- Megan McCafferty -
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
-- Meir Kahane -
I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East.
-- Paul Bremer -
To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
-- Queen Rania of Jordan -
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There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
Melting icebergs aren't beheading Christians in the Middle East,
-- Reince PriebusSource : Reince Priebus' Speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, www.c-span.org. February 27, 2015.
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The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.
-- Russ Carnahan -
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A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.
-- Serge SchmemannSource : "From the Editor" by Serge Schmemann, www.nytimes.com. December 02, 2010.
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The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
-- Shimon Peres -
In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.
-- Shimon Peres -
The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.
-- Shimon Peres -
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in the traditional family structure of Persia ... one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather one has to accommodate them, make allowances and accept them, like misfortune.
-- Shusha GuppySource : Shusha Guppy (2004). “Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood”, p.38, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.
-- Silvan ShalomSource : "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.
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It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
-- Tahir Shah -
Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.
-- William J. Clinton -
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[the war in Iraq] "could have terrifically good effects troughout the Middle East
-- William Kristol -
Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.
-- Willy RussellSource : Willy Russell (2014). “Shirley Valentine & One For The Road”, p.4, A&C Black
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
-- Zaha Hadid -
The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.
-- Andre Vltchek -
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The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle East but for places from Africa to Afghanistan. There are millions of stories out there, millions of potential Booksellers of Kabul or Valentino Achak Dengs.
-- Annia CiezadloSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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We have for decades now, and I've dealt with the Russians for 35 years, we have from time to time been able to, even though we have different interests, to align them. That alignment has become more and more difficult under Putin. You see that in Ukraine, you see it in the Middle East. To an extent where he actually defines Russian success as thwarting the United States.
-- Ashton CarterSource : Source: abcnews.go.com
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The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.
-- Baron VaughnSource : "Baron Vaughn on getting stabbed and becoming Tom Servo". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 19, 2016.
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Today President Obama is in the Middle East. He met the new king of Saudi Arabia. Obama also met Saudi Arabia's first lady, the second lady, third lady, and fourth lady.
-- Conan O'Brien -
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Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in the Middle East.
-- Dov Davidoff -
The Middle East is America's 'champagne room'. No matter how much you spend, you will still never get what you want.
-- Dov Davidoff -
A few years ago, they [Neandertals] were thought to be ancestral to anatomically modern humans, but now we know that modern humans appeared at least 100,000 years ago, much before the disappearance of the Neandertals. Moreover, in caves in the Middle East, fossils of modern humans have been found dated 120,000-100,000 years ago, as well as Neandertals dated at 60,000 and 70,000 years ago, followed again by modern humans dated at 40,000 years ago. It is unclear whether the two forms repeatedly replaced one another by migration from other regions, or whether they coexisted in some areas
-- Francisco J. Ayala -
The Americans view the democratization of the Middle East as the route to peace.
-- Gilles KepelSource : Source: www.spiegel.de
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There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.
-- Jeffrey GoldbergSource : "'The Obama Doctrine': Examining White House Foreign Policy". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 10, 2016.
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There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.
-- Jeffrey GoldbergSource : "'The Obama Doctrine': Examining White House Foreign Policy". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 10, 2016.
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The continual linking of the notions of terrorist and terrorism with Muslims and the Middle East is, essentially, an act of propaganda that cannot help but promote "Islamophobia."
-- Lawrence DavidsonSource : Source: www.truth-out.org
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The Middle East is rejecting any other religions, so it's a one sided multiculturalism.
-- Mark Durie -