Middle east Quotes

“Riyadh or Sharjah weren't exactly high on my list.”

— Manil Suri

Nothing in the Middle East is ever forgotten or forgiven.

— Michael Korda

There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

— Deng Xiaoping

I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

— Bernie Sanders

Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Your smile could bring peace to the Middle East”

— Ismaaciil C. Ubax

No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East.

— Barack Obama

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

— Anonymous

Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.

— Heather Brooke

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

— Elliott Abrams

There was no terrorism in the Middle East until Washington brought it there with invasions, bombings, and torture.

— Paul Craig Roberts

Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in…

— Dov Davidoff

“  “Bad news. The Egyptians have left Bogotá on one of six American Airlines’ flights. Steve, I lost them.”

— Karl Braungart

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

— David Letterman

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

— John Gunther

If you look at the Middle East, it's a blow up, it's a total disaster. We have an incompetent president [Barack Obama].

— Donald Trump

World leaders need to approach the problems in the Middle East and northern Africa with imaginative ideas such as those that created…

— Pete Hoekstra

Oil prices jumped to well over $100 a barrel, and analysts say it's due to tension in the Middle East. So, luckily,…

— Jay Leno

What we need to do with respect to the Middle East is strong, steady leadership, not wrong and reckless leadership that is…

— Mitt Romney

The Middle East is replete with both new and old threats. One should not underestimate these threats, but not be alarmed by…

— Shimon Peres

The war against ISIS will pose many new challenges for the next commander-in-chief. The last two presidents [George W. Bush and Barack…

— Wolf Blitzer

The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind…

— Tony Judt

The Benghazi attack was one of the more confusing, chaotic days that we had at work because you had these multiple violent…

— Ben Rhodes

Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we're going to in there and fix…

— Benjamin Carson

Our basic assessment was that if America keeps going down these rabbit holes in the Middle East, we're just going to put…

— Ben Rhodes

This administration, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton through their foreign policy, have betrayed the American people, because the weakness they've displayed has…

— Chris Christie

When we strengthen our relations with the Gulf states, when we cooperate with the Arabs, everybody asks if we are looking for…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for…

— Neil MacGregor

Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his…

— Adam Zagajewski

I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief…

— Helen Thomas

Afghans excel at fighting Afghans. This is what Afghans do, even when they are not being invaded by foreign powers. They fight…

— Phyllis Chesler

Most people in the Middle East at the moment, even if they are totally open-minded about possible peace, nobody does anything. It's…

— Eran Riklis

“As two former empires, both with distinct identities and a strong sense of national pride, there is an island mentality in Iran…

— Lois Pryce

“How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply…

— Noam Chomsky

The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing…

— Aurora Levins Morales

“In Mesoamerica, timekeeping provided the stimulus that accounting gave to the Middle East. Like contemporary astrologers, the Olmec, Maya, and Zapotec believed…

— Charles C. Mann

“Edward genially enough did not dis agree with what I said, but he didn't seem to admit my point, either. I wanted…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Something Arabs and Westerners certainly do is what one might have thought someone like Amis, considering the kind of fictional world he…

— John R. Bradley

“Israel's demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a 'strategic asset,' as did its moves to prevent Syrian…

— Noam Chomsky

“Just as people asked ‘Why do they hate us?’ after 9/11, one evening I asked my father, ‘Why did they do this…

— Brigitte Gabriel