Best Middle East Quotations
374 Middle East quotes by 270 unique authors
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Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League,…
— Mark Steyn
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After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the…
— Robert Fisk
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We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)
— Ronald Reagan
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For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.
— John Conyers
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I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by…
— Alcee Hastings
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The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal…
— Alcee Hastings
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Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity…
— Gary Bauer
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It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.
— Madeleine Albright
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Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must…
— Daniel Barenboim
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There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.
— Deng Xiaoping
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The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny…
— John Keegan
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I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will…
— Helen Thomas
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I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so…
— Hans Blix
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While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in a conflict in Syria – half a world away from the United…
— Robert D. Kaplan
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Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
— Kenny Marchant
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The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of…
— Kenny Marchant
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Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.
— Willy Russell
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In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle…
— Robert M. Gates
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The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of…
— Aurora Levins Morales
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Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak…
— Jonathan Krohn
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The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack…
— Clare Short
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I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.
— Edward Luck
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One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the scriptures…
— Arnold Beichman
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My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians,…
— Frank Carson
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We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and…
— Midge Decter
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