Arab World Quotes - Page 4

• Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.

  Robert Reich

  Technology, Important, World

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• [Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.

  Richard Dawkins

  Usa, Iraq, World

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• The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.

  Joe Lieberman

  Dream, Iraq, People

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• This rally must send a message to the Israeli people, to the Jewish people around the world, to the many people in the Arab world, and indeed to the entire world, that the Israeli people want peace, support peace. For this, I thank you.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Israel, People, Support

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• The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab

  Hisham Melhem

  Political, Islam, Brutality

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• With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President
  Obama ... is stepping once again - and with understandably great reluctance - into the chaos
  of an entire civilization that has broken down. Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but
  gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism -
  the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition-than at any time since the collapse of the
  Ottoman Empire a century ago.

  Hisham Melhem

  Islamic, Civilization, Broken

  "The Barbarians Within Our Gates" by Hisham Melhem, www.politico.com. September 18, 2014.

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• Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones we’re familiar with under King Abdullah.

  Elliott Abrams

  Strong, Kings, Thinking

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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 Shadid

  War, Careers, East

  "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.

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• I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the leaders of the Arab world and Arafat should do their utmost to put an end to this and then the United States should do its utmost to produce a political solution.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Leader, Political

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• I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Wall, Iraq, People

  "Arnold An 'Arrogant Patriarch'?". www.foxnews.com. April 05, 2012.

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• I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead... Education itself - which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of tolerance and respect for other people -sometimes encourages identitarian closure, or even extremist behaviour... It is therefore vital to ensure that education does not encourage rejection of other people or identitarian closure, but that on the contrary it encourages knowledge and respect for other cultures, other religions and other ways of being and living.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Egypt, Other Cultures, Play

  "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster". Interview with Gamal Nkrumah, weekly.ahram.org.eg. January 10-18, 2006.

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• We can remove Saddam because that could start a chain reaction in the Arab world that would be very healthy.

  William Kristol

  Healthy, Would Be, World

  "Bill Kristol's Guide to Falling Upward" by Eric Alterman, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world... and I think we will be respected around the world.

  William Kristol

  Thinking, Iraq, People

  "Bill Kristol's Guide to Falling Upward". www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is moderate, and that is acting as a beacon for freedom and liberty across the Arab world.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Egypt, Track, Liberty

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• We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

  Chris Matthews

  Islamic, Iraq, Cards

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• There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Men, World, Way

  Conversation with P. J. O'Rourke, www.theatlantic.com. September, 2004.

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• If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids.

  Lindsey Graham

  Heart, Civilization, Pyramids

  "State of the Union" With Candy Crowley, transcripts.cnn.com. February 13, 2011.

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• We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Spring, Israel, Oil

  "What Egypt Can Teach America" by Nicholas D. Kristof, www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2011.

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• It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.

  Wadah Khanfar

  Spring, World, Growing

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• If the region truly becomes democratic, an undemocratic bit of earth would remain here. It's hard to imagine that the world, especially the Arab world, would tolerate this.

  Tom Segev

  World, Earth, Imagine

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Islam in the Arab world coexists with Indonesian, Pakistani and Turkish Islam. There is limited solidarity, even within the Arab world.

  Walter Kasper

  Islam, World, Solidarity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Women in the Arab world have a rich history in their active participation in political change from the Algeria revolution against the French occupation to the most recent revolution in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya among other countries. The question is not their participation. Their question is the incorporation of women's voices fully in the new definitions of the countries where change has happened.

  Zainab Salbi

  Country, Voice, Egypt

  "'War is Just a Microcosm of Peace' – an Interview With Zainab Salbi". Interview with Eva Fernndez Ortiz, truthout.org. June 7, 2011.

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• We need to engage with the Arab world.It is not a serious proposal to say that - to the people that you're asking for their support that they can't even come to the country to even engage in a dialogue with us.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, People, Support

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Saudi Arabia is the most fragile of all Arab states, though we're not saying so. And, unfortunately, bin Laden puts his finger on the other longstanding injustices in the Arab world: the continued occupation of Palestinian land by the Israelis; the enormous, constant Arab anger with the tens of thousands of Iraqi children who are dying under sanctions; the feelings of humiliation of millions of Arabs living under petty dictators, almost all of whom are propped up by the West.

  Robert Fisk

  Children, Land, Feelings

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 1, 2001.

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• I've been many times to Dubai and the U.A.E., and I have friends that live there. It would be exciting to stage world heavyweight championship fights in the Arab world. It's something Muhammad Ali achieved when he fought in Zaire or the Philippines. It's absolutely exciting to fight in countries where you have never fought.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Country, Fighting, Dubai

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