Middle East Quotes - Page 16

• Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his ability to combine the reporter's perspective with a deep knowledge of poetry, including pre-Islamic Arab poems. A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Pain, Book, Islamic

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• Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world. Because of that event, history was split. Every time you write a date, you’re using the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as the focal point.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Writing, Years

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• Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby.

  Stephen M. Irwin

  Girl, Baby, Fear

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• Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Aunt, World, West

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• These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.

  Frank Carlucci

  Aunt, Elements, Can Do

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• Saddam's existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America, now. Saddam has used chemical weapons before, both against Iraq's enemies and against his own people. He is working to develop delivery systems like missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles that could bring these deadly weapons against U.S. forces and U.S. facilities in the Middle East.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Real, Wmd, Mass Destruction

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• Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

  Marvin Harris

  Attitude, Pigs, Years

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• In fact, Christianity has been one of the great salivations on planet Earth. It's what's necessary in the Middle East. Others have written about it, I think these people need to be forcibly converted to Christianity but I'll get here a little later, I'll move up to that. It's the only thing that can probably turn them into human beings.

  Michael Savage

  Moving, Thinking, People

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• In the Middle East - and this is prior to the migration - you had almost no chance of coming into the United States. Christians from Syria, of which there were many, many of their heads ... chopped off. If you were a Muslim from Syria, it was one of the easiest places to come in (to the U.S.). I thought that was deplorable.

  Donald Trump

  Christian, Migration, United States

  Source: townhall.com

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• So they caught Gadhafi in a storm sewer and shot him. Or as they call it in the Middle East, an orderly transfer of power.

  David Letterman

  Storm, Caught, Shots

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• For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last night that asserted that the famous AK-47 - the original peoples' rifle (and Authority's greatest mistake) - is rare in this country, and that the only ones here were originally smuggled in from the Middle East, or possibly from South America. The idiots who wrote this mess seemed unaware that after legal imports - mostly from China - were illegally cut off by executive order, they began to be manufactured here.

  L. Neil Smith

  Country, Jobs, Mistake

  "Tastes Like Chicken". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 28, 2010.

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• [There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state.

  Ali Khamenei

  Unrest, Destruction, States

  "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 Khamenei

  Israel, Entity, Hideous

  Khamenei.ir @khamenei_ir, twitter.com. September 02, 2010.

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• I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think 'war correspondent' smells a bit, reeks of false romanticism: it has too much of the whiff of Victorian reporters who would view battles from hilltops in the company of ladies, immune to suffering, only occasionally glancing towards the distant pop-pop of cannon fire.

  Robert Fisk

  War, Thinking, Views

  "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.

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• The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.

  Dick Cheney

  Lying, Two, Oil

  Dick Cheney's speech at the Autumn lunch of the London Institute of Petroleum, 1999.

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• 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

  Oil, Enemy, Purpose

  'Meet the Press', www.nbcnews.com. August 19, 2007.

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• We can keep doing the same thing, but it would be unreasonable to expect a different result. It's very important, I think, for us to stop and look at what we're doing.We've been applying a flamethrower to the Middle East. And not just to the Middle East.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Important, Looks

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• There's an old proverb that says the Russian bear never dies, it just hibernates and the truth of the matter is the weak and feckless policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has awakened an aggression in Russia that first appeared few years ago with their move in Georgia, now their move into Crimea, now their move into the wider Middle East and all the while, all we do is fold our arms and say we're not having talks anymore.

  Mike Pence

  Moving, Russia, Years

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Absorbing. . . . Scrupulously reported . . . illuminates today’s Middle East. . . . The ‘least interventionist of any modern president,’ the father of the Eisenhower Doctrine that still defines US policy in the Middle East . . . in 1956 battled demons in bodies personal and politic and in the desert – and prevailed. Nichols’ book, written lean enough to allow the facts to speak for themselves, makes for exciting history.

  Carlo Wolff

  Father, Book, President

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• I'm going to make America safe. We're going to have borders in our country, which we don't have now. People are pouring into our country, and they're coming in from the Middle East and other places.

  Donald Trump

  Country, America, People

  Second presidential debate, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur are spinning in their grave at the stupidity of what we're doing in the Middle East.

  Donald Trump

  Stupidity, Spinning, Macarthur

  Second presidential debate, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• The arguments of waste are heavily overdone, because what you do is to accelerate the infrastructure that you have to build anyway, like airports and roads, and in this case it happens much faster. So speaking of a roadmap, without being specific, I would still go for Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East - that's what our clients are really interested in.

  Martin Sorrell

  Latin, Airports, America

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• [the war in Iraq] "could have terrifically good effects troughout the Middle East

  William Kristol

  War, Iraq, Effects

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• Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the Middle East is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.

  L. Neil Smith

  Wise, Country, Jobs

  "Enquiring Minds and the Oil War". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. July 11, 2010.

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• We usually speak of the Jewish-Christian civilization - perhaps, the time has come, especially with regard to the Middle East conflict, to talk about the Jewish-Muslim civilization as an axis opposed to Christianity.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Christian, Civilization, Axes

  "A Glance into the Archives of Islam". www.lacan.com. 2006.

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