Middle East Quotes - Page 13

• We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Technology, Thinking, Oil

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• The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.

  John Podhoretz

  Suicide, Children, Media

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• 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

  People, Hegemony, World

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• Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

  Shimon Peres

  Swimming, Years, Israel

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• We have been there for 15 years in the Middle East, and much more than that probably. And we have spent probably $4 trillion, maybe more than that. And it's time to do something about it. And it's time to also knock ISIS out. You got to knock ISIS out.

  Donald Trump

  Isis, Years, Has Beens

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.

  Baron Vaughn

  Want, Gorgeous, East

  "Baron Vaughn on getting stabbed and becoming Tom Servo". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 19, 2016.

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• A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

  Jimmy Wales

  People, Goes On, Information

  Interview with Foster Kamer, www.esquire.com. January 13, 2011.

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• 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

  Running, School, Suggestions

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• Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Crazy, Kids, Fighting

  "Cold Turkey" by Kurt Vonnegut, inthesetimes.com. May 10, 2004.

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• The G20 was established as a forum to discuss, first and foremost, world economic issues. If we load it with... Of course, politics affects economic processes, this is obvious, but if we bring some squabbles, or not squabbles, rather, some matters that are really important but relate purely to world politics, we will overload the G20 agenda and instead of addressing such issues as finance, structural economic reforms, tax evasion and so forth, we will engage in endless debates concerning the Syrian crisis or some other global challenges, of which there are many, or the Middle East problem.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Challenges, Important

  Source: thesaker.is

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• In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional level. For the first time in history, grain production is dropping in a geographic region with nothing in sight to arrest the decline. Each day now brings 10,000 more people to feed and less irrigation water with which to feed them.

  Lester R. Brown

  Sight, People, Water

  "This will be the Arab world's next battle" by Lester R. Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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• The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.

  Andre Vltchek

  Historical, Trying, Done

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Like Trump`s presidential bid, the Brexit campaign has been driven largely by fears of cultural penetration, immigrant invasion, and the genuine crisis of Middle East refugees dying to get into Europe, all channeled into a kind of inward-turning form of ethno-nationalism.

  Chris Hayes

  Europe, Presidential, Dying

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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

  Maps, Jars, Common

  Edward W. Said (2014). “Orientalism”, p.18, Vintage

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• Everything's going to be fine. She'll be back at work soon. Let's just keep the house clean." Oh yeah, I want to say, because a clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.

  Melina Marchetta

  House, Want, Clean

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Buddhism, Ideas, Islam

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1995). “Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings”, p.183, Penguin UK

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• I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead.

  Elton John

  Jesus, Gay, Intelligent

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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

  World, Too Much, Tension

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.556, Crown

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• Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East.

  Robert Baer

  Fall, Egypt, Next

  "A Revolution in the Making?" by Aladdin Elaasar, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2010.

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• The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism. Today it's a little bit more complicated.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Country, Numbers, Revolution

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I [have big plans]. Promoting freedom around the world, particularly with women in the Middle East. Working on global disease. Working on accountability in public schools. And advocating for a free marketplace and an economic environment in which businesses can innovate and create jobs.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, School, Accountability

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.

  Abdallah II

  Jobs, Frustration, People

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• No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

  Abdallah II

  Spring, Emotional, Issues

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• Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence.

  Darrell Issa

  Peaceful, Wish, Violence

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• In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East, and we're not going to be divided along any lines.

  Darrell Issa

  Religious, America, Peaceful

  "NewsNight Aaron Brown", www.cnn.com. December 12, 2001.

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