Arab Quotes
376 quotes by 242 authors
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In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is…
— Youssou N'Dour
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One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the…
— Christopher Bond
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I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy…
— Juan Cole
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Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring?…
— Gilles Duceppe
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The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.
— Norman Finkelstein
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Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what…
— Robert Fisk
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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether…
— Zaha Hadid
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No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical…
— Abdallah II
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No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark Ages.…
— Sebastian Junger
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The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab
— Hisham Melhem
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Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime.
— Hisham Melhem
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Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies…
— Elliott Abrams
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On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call…
— Anthony Shadid
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When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad…
— Sayed Badreya
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President Bush is an intelligent man. He is not going to declare an economic war against Iraq . [...] I admire your extraordinary efforts to…
— April Glaspie
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Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the world,…
— Ray LaHood
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Almost every peace process that has gone on between the Arab side and Israel, the United States has been somewhat isolated because most of the…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the leaders…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.
— Honore de Balzac
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The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring together Shiites, Sunnis…
— Howard Zinn
Who Wrote These Arab Quotes
242 authors contributed a total of 376 Arab Quotes, led by these top contributors: