Middle East Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Directors, Boards, East

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• I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

  Gary Johnson

  War, Long, Decision

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• Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond

  Herb Kohl

  Easter, War, Winning

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• Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

  Jerome Corsi

  Administration, Failing, Continuing

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• 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 Mubarak

  Easter, Mass Destruction, Weapons

  "Mubarak: Arabs to Fight 'Scourge of Terrorism'". Joint News Conference with President Bush, edition.cnn.com. June 03, 2003.

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• A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Democracy, Administration, Terrorism

  "A little democracy is a dangerous thing - so let's have more of it". www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2006.

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• Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Experts, Concur, East

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• You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.

  Chris Matthews

  Literature, Knows, East

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• Prayer is all-powerful. Let us use it to bring peace to the Middle East and peace to the world.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Powerful, Use

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• Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Mean, Diversity, Goal

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• I think it's important that we do it [defeat ISIS] in concert with other nations in Europe, the Middle East, elsewhere if necessary. And that means you've got to work with people. You don't insult them. You don't insult their religion. And it means we have to see our entire country, all of the people in it, as part of our first line of defense.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

  Yasser Arafat

  Palestine, Homeland, Kicks

  The Daily Iowan, September 11, 2003.

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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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• 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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• We've got to remain energy-independent. It gives us much more power and freedom than to be worried about what goes on in the Middle East. We have enough worries over there without having to worry about that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Independent, Giving, Worry

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the second 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2016.

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• You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Player, Government, Should

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Party, Different, Factions

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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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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• 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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• I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Expression, Challenges, Excuse

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• How many migrants, how many immigrants, how many migrants and refugees fleeing war-torn areas in the Middle East are permitted into the Vatican? I'm not kidding. I think I saw a story where they're going to take ... two. It's obviously symbolic. They will take two at the Vatican, thereby setting an example and showing how it's done.

  Rush Limbaugh

  War, Thinking, Two

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• So the idea about how detonation of a nuclear weapon might happen vary, you know - some people are especially concerned about terrorists getting their hands on nuclear weapons and using them. Some people are worried that there might be a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. Some think the Middle East, were Israel already has nuclear weapons and where other countries may be interested at some point and acquiring them, might be a flash point.

  John Burroughs

  Country, War, Thinking

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• We've achieved this historic progress through diplomacy, without resorting to another war in the Middle East. I want to also point out that by working with Iran on this nuclear deal, we were better able to address other issues.

  Barack Obama

  War, Iran, Issues

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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