Yemen Quotes

• Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that.

  Ali Abdullah Saleh

  Brother, Practice, Pioneers

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• The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

  Bill Vaughan

  People, Democracy

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• Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Russia, America

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• Two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole and then again two days before the attack, they saw through their analysis that a major event was going to occur in Yemen. They told the Navy not to bring the Cole into Yemen harbor. It went in and was attacked.

  Curt Weldon

  Two, Navy, Events

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• Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.

  Bill Vaughan

  Country, Building Up, Democracy

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• This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out Isil wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground. This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years.

  Barack Obama

  Safe Haven, Years, Air

  "Obama Declares War on Syria". Interview with Mike Whitney, www.counterpunch.org. September 12, 2014.

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• We have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Unstable, Interest, Seeing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The war in Yemen is not a war that we wanted. We had no other option - there was a radical militia allied with Iran and Hezbollah that took over the country. It was in possession of heavy weapons, ballistic missiles and even an air force. Should we stand by idly while this happens at our doorstep, in one of the countries in which al-Qaida has a huge presence? So we responded, as part of a coalition, at the request of the legitimate government of Yemen, and we stepped in to support them.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Country, War, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Instead of fighting ISIS, (the Saudis) have focused more on a campaign to oust Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fighting, Isis, Iran

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• Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

  John Gunther

  Coffee, Iraq, Orange

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• Likewise to Saudi Arabia, where we just were selling another billion dollars worth of weapons, and we're not only selling the weapons but we are complicit in the war effort in Yemen where there are also incredible atrocities and war crimes being committed.

  Jill Stein

  War, Effort, Atrocities

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Don't forget Yemen, where there are also extremist elements, as we saw recently.

  David Petraeus

  Saws, Elements, Forget

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Arab awakening has been, up to now, a lot about freedom from dictatorial regimes - Syria, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, Bahrain and Egypt. But once you got freedom from, then you need freedom to. Freedom from is about destroying things. Freedom to is about constructing things, constructing the rule of law.

  Thomas Friedman

  Egypt, Law, Needs

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• The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think they’d have to grant, that as has been said, that the Houthis are an internally generated movement in Yemen and the Saudis were supposed to be dealing with the Houthis, who started out in essence along their border. So one of the things that we’re seeing is a complete failure of Saudi policy toward Yemen over the past 10 years, but the Saudis totally believe that the reason the Houthis are able to succeed militarily is the amount of money, advice, and guns they are receiving from Iran.

  Elliott Abrams

  Believe, Thinking, Gun

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• I do believe that the Iranians are a good neighbour. The Iranians have supported the people of Yemen.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Believe, People, Neighbour

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It's critically important that we have governments to work with, that we have entities to work with. President Hadi has been a good partner in that, and we would hope that the next set of leaders that govern Yemen will also take the same approach to cooperation with the United States.

  Chuck Hagel

  Government, Leader, Important

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• If you want peace and well-being to be in place in the Middle East and you want terrorism to be uprooted, then there's no path other than the presence of the Islamic Republic of Iran, you saw that in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen that the power that was able to help the people of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen in the face of terrorist groups was the Islamic Republic of Iran.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Peace, Islamic, Iran

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• I think what happened with 9/11 is that people sort of felt that it came from nowhere. Whereas I think now we understand the roots are very deep. I say it's like revolutionary Communism, something that is going to have to be knocked out over a very long period of time. This strain of extremism continues to be very strong, whether it's in Afghanistan, or Somalia or Yemen, or any of these places.

  Tony Blair

  Strong, Thinking, Roots

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The CIA runs the drone program in Pakistan solely, not with the military. Then there's a joint CIA-military program in Yemen, then the CIA is involved in a lot of use of spy drones around the world and in the proliferation of bases.

  Medea Benjamin

  Running, Military, Spy

  Source: progressive.org

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• The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

  Rick Perry

  Country, Ties, People

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• The terrorism from 9/11 has metastasized. It's metastasized in Iraq and Syria, in Nigeria, in Somalia, in Yemen and in other places in North Africa. We need a very comprehensive strategy to deal with that threat.

  Leon Panetta

  Iraq, Needs, Terrorism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The gigantic challenge is the magnitude of the individual differences in the optimal set point for "good stress." For one person, it's doing something risky with your bishop in a chess game; for someone else, it's becoming a mercenary in Yemen.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Stress, Individual Differences, Games

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human longing for dignity, for justice and for freedom. I think that applies to young people in Saudi Arabia as much as to young people in Egypt, Tunisia, or Yemen, or Libya, or Syria. If I were in Saudi Arabia, I would be getting ahead of this and looking for ways to appreciate those aspirations and align my country with them.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Thinking, Egypt

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• Let's recognize that, the Houthi rebels in Yemen are fully subsidized by Iran.

  Mike Pence

  Iran, Rebel

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• When they made that horrible deal with Iran, they should have included the fact that they do something with respect to North Korea. And they should have done something with respect to Yemen and all these other places.

  Donald Trump

  Iran, Should Have, Korea

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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