Lebanon Quotes · Page 2

We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

— Walid Jumblatt

There is an anatomical dysfunction in today's Lebanon, and we have been stuck in a socio-political vicious circle for decades.

— Lucien Bourjeily

Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.

— Yitzhak Rabin

If the [captured Israeli] soldiers are not returned, we will turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years.

— Dan Halutz

I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as…

— Yitzhak Rabin

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

— Bashar al-Assad

I've been to Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait for brief visits at conferences, and they are very interesting countries.

— Samuel P. Huntington

At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York.

— Ameen Rihani

There are a lot of female directors in Lebanon but we can't really talk about a true film industry, it's still very…

— Nadine Labaki

Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea. It's the route for them to arm…

— Mitt Romney

“Do our dreams carry messages from the great beyond, sent by the people we have lost, or are they a reflection of…

— Zeina Kassem

Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done…

— Walter Russell Mead

The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place.…

— Michael McCaul

My job and my task as prime minister of Lebanon is to shield Lebanon from any instability like in Syria or Iraq…

— Saad Hariri

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as…

— Greg Kinnear

Three-quarters of [Bashar Assad] country is displaced. It's in Jordan, it's in Lebanon, it's in Turkey, and in the desert. The threat…

— John F. Kerry

Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon - or worse, Somalia - the Bush administration opted for a new…

— Noah Feldman

People in the United States don't like to hear it, but puritanical Islam has been on the rise because of our unequivocal…

— Khaled Abou El Fadl

What is the most entrepreneurial country in the Middle East today? It's Lebanon. Which country has no oil or gas? Lebanon. The…

— Thomas Friedman

Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of…

— A. J. Liebling

“I am from Lebanon, from Beirut and Saida I am from the ground underneath my home I am from the trees, the…

— Talal Kassem Zeina Kassem

“Grief is shameless; it refuses to be ignored. If you let it have its way, it becomes fatal. If you try to…

— Zeina Kassem

Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take…

— Shimon Peres

America's real plan is to fuel a civil war, while the national plan is for all Lebanese to live in peace with…

— Hassan Nasrallah

We are prepared for any action that may be required in Gaza, Lebanon, and in additional areas.

— Yoav Gallant

Lebanon is our country, and in it we are staying (as a minority christians).

— Samir Geagea

My name means 'hope' in Arabic, and I was born when there was a war in Lebanon.

— Amal Clooney

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

— Ehud Olmert

Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.

— Richard Engel

“For Lebanon to have any future, gotta adopt a resolute policy v/s terrorism. Whoever plots against the land should bear the consequences.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept…

— Greg Kinnear

There is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN…

— Paul Virilio

I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.

— Jimmy Carter

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.

— Walid Jumblatt

I think it is our duty towards the people of Lebanon to stabilize the country.

— Saad Hariri

We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing…

— Wesley Clark

You know the Middle East is going crazy when Lebanon is the most peaceful place in the region.

— Maz Jobrani

There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.

— Menachem Begin

There is a constant effort of the Palestinian terrorist organizations to increase their presence and their forces in Lebanon.

— Yitzhak Shamir

We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.

— Mike Johanns