Middle East Quotes

• Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Humorous, Oil

  Speech at state dinner forWilly Brandt, Jerusalem, 10 June 1973

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• It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Explosions, Difficult, Areas

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• 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

  Easter, Tragedy, World

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• After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire career — in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdad — watching the people within those borders burn.

  Robert Fisk

  Father, War, Land

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that competition will exist even if we discover more oil. We're never going to know how much we have, or how long will it last. You are always going to want to have diversity of supply. I think the Middle East will remain a region of competition, of global competition, fighting for a long time.

  Thomas Friedman

  Fighting, Thinking, Oil

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• And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.'' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Thank You, Country, Israel

  "Israel entirely 'pro-America'". Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Did you hear that we're writing Iraq's new Constitution?
  Why not just give them ours? We're not using it anymore.

  Jay Leno

  Writing, Usa, Iraq

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• You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Easter, War, Egypt

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• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  Rachel Weisz

  Relationship, Horse, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.

  Maz Jobrani

  Motivation, Inspiration, Laughing

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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

  Block, Scripture, Entering

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• It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

  Silvan Shalom

  Easter, Democracy, East

  "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.

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• It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Aunt, World, East

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• I think we've got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than in the Middle East.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, World, Complexity

  Transcript of the Second Democratic Debate, time.com. November 15, 2015.

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• The United States and Israel have enjoyed a friendship built on mutual respect and commitment to democratic principles. Our continuing search for peace in the Middle East begins with a recognition that the ties uniting our two countries can never be broken.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Commitment, Ties

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• Iran of course is Shiite, while the bulk of the Arabs are Sunni, that is a problem or could be a problem. Also, there is the simple fact that Iran is non-Arab and most of the Muslims in the Middle East are Arab.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Simple, Iran, Facts

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  World, Demand, Democratization

  "Recep Tayyip Erdogan: The Road to Middle East Democracy". Address at Harvard University, www.independent.co.uk. February 09, 2004.

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• Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

  George Ball

  Prejudice, Problem, Bias

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• 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

  Witty, Political, Importance

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• I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

  Steven Spielberg

  Art, Book, Thinking

  "Spielberg: Israel entitled to strong response" by Yitzhak Benhorin, www.ynetnews.com. June 12, 2005.

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• The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.

  Russ Carnahan

  Easter, Cannons, Iranian

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• To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Usa, Political, President

  "Does Obama Deserve Credit for Killing Qaddafi?" by Adam Clark Estes, www.theatlantic.com. October 20, 2011.

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• Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

  King Hussein I

  Beauty, Country, Yesterday

  "The Arab World", Arab Information Center, p. 30, 1965.

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• I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.

  Natan Sharansky

  Easter, Peace, Believe

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• There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, August, Years

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.168, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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