Middle east Quotes · Page 8

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

The United States has a lot of influence in a country like Afghanistan, but it also has influence throughout the Middle East.

— Neera Tanden

Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

— Elliott Abrams

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

— Heather Brooke

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

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

— Paul Craig Roberts

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle…

— Anonymous

Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in…

— Chris Christie

The general perception, in much of the Middle East, is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy.…

— Bernard Lewis

The U.S. alleges it wants to democratize [the Middle East] whilst it seeks to reverse election results not legally or through polls,…

— Khaled Mashal

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been…

— Robert Foster Bennett

We need to take into account our allies in the Middle East including Israel, Saudi Arabia, and their concerns before we leap…

— Bill Hagerty

The issue [Israeli-Palestinian conflict], already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an…

— Xi Jinping

Since before the Civil War, crosses have indeed garnished veterans' memorials from the North to the South, from Arlington to Normandy, and…

— Chuck Norris

“But why should 1299 CE be considered the founding date of the empire? – there were no famous battles, no declarations of…

— Caroline Finkel

The United States ... has been proud of its association with the State of Israel. We shall continue to stand with Israel.…

— Gerald R. Ford

These people in media have a personal attachment to Barack Obama and his presidency and his legacy. And so Trump... It's just…

— Rush Limbaugh

To be sure, many of the Sykes-Picot borders reflected deals cut in Europe rather than local demographic or historical realities. But that…

— Richard N. Haass

I think that there is a particular mindset that was on display in the run-up to the Iraq war that continues to…

— Barack Obama

Governments can no longer control 100 percent of the story. Time and geographical boundaries disappear. In places like China and all over…

— Amy Jo Martin

“It was not necessarily what Ketchum might have said about the war in Iraq, or the never-ending mess in the Middle East,…

— John Irving

I draw a distinction between freedom of the internet and freedom via the internet. In the first case, it's making sure cyberspace…

— Evgeny Morozov

A surprise to others, but not to me, since I've watched this closely for eight years now, is how George W. Bush…

— Paul Kengor

“At the G-20 meeting in Paris in 2011, finance ministers expressed fears that U.S.-driven global inflation was threatening global stability. George Melloan…

— Steve Forbes

One of the things that makes me the most nervous is that the Middle East has historically had a sense of predictability.…

— Ilan Berman

“If God's love encompasses the whole world and if everyone who does not believe in him will perish, then surely this question…

— Charles Templeton

I talked about the human suffering in Iraq. And I also saw the need to advance a freedom agenda. Imagine a world…

— George W. Bush

“The Iran War has sharply brought into focus the distinction between two approaches to geopolitics. Faced with a boldly hostile enemy, some…

— R. N. Prasher

“America is a place of opportunity. It’s people-friendly! Very much so, compared to the Muslim countries in the world. People looking for…

— Brigitte Gabriel

“The Muslim world in general, the Arab world in particular was confirmed in its grievances, particularly that the West was prepared to…

— John Keegan

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

— David Letterman

“Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.”

— Shlomo Sand

We have spent, right now, $6 trillion in the Middle East, and America is falling apart. It's not right.

— Donald Trump

I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a…

— Ehud Olmert

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

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

— Adam Michnik

Iranian young people are one of the most pro-American populations in the Middle East.

— Jared Cohen

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

— Henry A. Kissinger