The United States has a lot of influence in a country like Afghanistan, but it also has influence throughout the Middle East. — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble. — John Gunther Copy Share Image
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon. — Russ Carnahan Copy Share Image
If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh. — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
I imagine, like all his predecessors, Barak Obama would like to achieve greatness in bringing peace in the Middle East. I hope… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
I traveled so much as a child. When I was four, we moved to the Oman in the Middle East. We lived… — Tate McRae Copy Share Image
With the same firmness with which I say that Iran represents a danger I tell Israel that you cannot and must not… — Gianfranco Fini Copy Share Image
We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus… — Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Copy Share Image
We never cease (NOO), we never die no we never decease (NOO). We multiply like we mathamatice. Then we drop bombs like… — Will I Am Copy Share Image
The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We… — Ike Skelton Copy Share Image
Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans… — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
[The Middle East conflict ] just kind of ran its course for me. For a long time I could justify doing it… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
The best thing America can do to put the Middle East on a path that leads to more democracy, less terrorism, human… — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The Arab countries in the Middle East have for decades demonized Israel, to Western leadership, which for reasons not entirely clear, listen… — Manfred Gerstenfeld Copy Share Image
“Be my lover between two wars waged in the mirror, she said. I don't want to return now to the fortress of… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
When they're shooting, when they're chopping off the heads of our people and other people, when they are chopping off the heads… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
On Putin's order, Russia intervenes in Syria not to fight terrorists but to abet the war crimes of the Assad regime. Russian… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“The best choice in domestic meat is lamb. Sheep generally graze on open ranges, out in the sun and fresh air, and… — Daniel Reid Copy Share Image
“It just means that for liberal democracy to develop in the Muslim Middle East, it will take much more than merely removing… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“We’ve driven wedges between parents and children, between liberals and conservatives, between whites and ethnic groups, and between the religious and non… — Robert Goddard Copy Share Image
“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“I like the idea of it. Just look at the world around you. Wars, terror, starvation, poverty, disease. Take the Middle East… — A.J. Kazinski Copy Share Image
“Soon after the raid was over, the White House released the now-famous photo of all of us watching the video in that… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“You might think that the Left could have a regime-change perspective of its own, based on solidarity with its comrades abroad. After… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election. — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
Iranian young people are one of the most pro-American populations in the Middle East. — Jared Cohen Copy Share Image
We have spent, right now, $6 trillion in the Middle East, and America is falling apart. It's not right. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
“Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.” — Shlomo Sand Copy Share Image
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
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![“[The Middle East conflict ] just kind of ran its course for me. For a long time I could justify doing it to myself, no matter how irrational it was. It was important to me and my work. And I just don't feel it in the same way any more. When it comes up and it's important to me, I'll do it, but…” quote by Peter van Agtmael](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ba7/peter-van-agtmael-25908_bigs_the-middle-east-conflict-just-kind-of-ra_2760410.jpg)
![“The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes…” quote by Stephen Kinzer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3b6/stephen-kinzer-2514_ajax_the-world-has-paid-a-heavy-price-for-the_2256735.jpg)
