Arafat was a barrier to peace.

Arafat is hosting, training, supporting, sponsoring terrorist organizations.

— Ariel Sharon

Ask Bill Clinton about Yasir Arafat. Clinton and Barak did everything they could in 2000 at Camp David. Arafat walked away from it.

— Anonymous

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort…

— Oriana Fallaci

The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family have made themselves the…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

I am the Israeli leader who met most with Arafat.

— Ehud Barak

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

— Amos Oz

Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas have recognized Israel's right to exist. The Israeli government has never recognized our right to a sovereign state and…

— Khaled Mashal

[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees…

— Yitzhak Rabin

Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where…

— Warren Christopher

In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

— Silvan Shalom

I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering…

— Natan Sharansky

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist. -Yassar Arafat

— Call Of Duty

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

— Oriana Fallaci

Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.

— John F. Kerry