Best Middle East Wisdom
374 Middle East quotes by 270 unique authors
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The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle…
— George Saunders
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In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace…
— Dominique de Villepin
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Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all…
— Tim Cahill
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I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know…
— Mark Vonnegut
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For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or…
— James Buchan
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from.…
— Youssou N'Dour
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People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of…
— Aloe Blacc
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There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans for the next…
— Nick Clooney
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Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.
— Jeff Goodell
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One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a…
— Noam Chomsky
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Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.
— Lou Reed
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Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in…
— Benigno Aquino III
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In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious…
— Darrell Issa
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Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both…
— Darrell Issa
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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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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the…
— Abdallah II
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Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some sort…
— Etgar Keret
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As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.
— John M. McHugh
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Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists…
— Kenny Marchant
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Repeatedly and frankly we have announced that in Irans national security doctrine there is no room for atomic and chemical weapons as we consider them…
— Ali Larijani
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A clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.
— Melina Marchetta
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One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and…
— Jay Rockefeller
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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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