Everyone knew that Saleh and the Houthis were a marriage of convenience. He was a dictator; the Houthis are ideologues who want… — Jamal Khashoggi Copy Share Image
The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
The problem with what we call the 'Arab spring' is that these are very nationalistic experiences. Tunisians are concerned with Tunisia, Egyptians… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
With the Arab Spring, came a great deal of hope that there would be a change towards more moderation, and opportunity for… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want… — Jack Keane Copy Share Image
We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I don't think the Arab Spring had much to do with energy. I think it was just the opposite, in fact. I… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
“Our daily routines influence the lives of people and animals halfway across the world, and some personal gestures can unexpectedly set the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The first question that I ask : do I have public support or not. That is the first question that I asked… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East. Is Israel going… — Abdallah II Copy Share Image
What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I am a supporter of much of the Arab Spring, as a matter of indigenous self-determination. So, I see the United States'… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
During the Arab Spring, I learned all sorts of things from Twitter. I wouldn't necessarily trust that information, but it gave me… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Independence used to be the ticket for liberty. But today, security and freedom, whether it's in the Arab Spring, whether it's in… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and… — Fouad Ajami Copy Share Image
If democracy succeeds in Egypt, other countries will follow. Should the democratic experiment in Egypt be hijacked by the military or anti-democratic… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
It's absolutely critical, you know, to train young men and women not just to find sites, but also to protect sites, especially… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
Few, if any, political analysts predicted the Arab Spring. The raw energy of millions of protestors in the streets of Tunis and… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
The Arab Spring is over. The days of the protesters with laptops and BlackBerrys in Tahrir Square are long gone. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Politically, we have seen the impact of social media organizing people through the Arab Spring. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power. — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring, — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in… — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
Muslims have been subjected to so many tyrants and oppressive regimes. That's what the Arab Spring was about, but the problem comes… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
Secretary Clinton and I have worked well together, but the Arab Spring is a different question... This administration, collectively, made some very… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
If the Arab Spring was a large nail in the coffin of al-Qaeda's ideology, the death of bin Laden was an equally… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
It is hard to know exactly when the Arab Spring, a phrase used to describe the beginning of the Arab peoples' demand… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
“America's 1st Arab spring came in the guise of the Civil War...when our nation couldn't stomach the abomination of slavery anymore. One… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
A decade ago, I lived in Saudi Arabia, in Riyadh, as the treasury attache to our embassy there, and I was, of… — Morgan Ortagus Copy Share Image
We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
I can understand the idea that there is a conspiracy. In fact, in much of the world there is a sense of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can understand Tunisia revolution as a failure to censor the internet. And Libya had that failure too. It's very difficult for… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
![“I can understand the idea that there is a conspiracy. In fact, in much of the world there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense. They [CIA] created a monster and now they…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/892/noam-chomsky-42_arab-spring_i-can-understand-the-idea-that-there-is_2781403.jpg)
