Change Quote by Recep Tayyip Erdogan

America is interested in change and reform in the Middle East but in a stable way.

— Thomas Friedman

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

— John Major

Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.

— Condoleezza Rice

For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and…

— Condoleezza Rice

“International stability is never a given. It is never the norm. When achieved, it is the product of self-conscious action by the great powers,…

— Charles Krauthammer

Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe because in…

— George W. Bush

We look forward, from what we heard from President-elect Trump, a clear vision related to the conditions and the challenges in the Middle East.…

— Sameh Shoukry

The Americans view the democratization of the Middle East as the route to peace.

— Gilles Kepel

There's kind of a hidden point which isn't being brought out, and that is that it is inconceivable that the U.S. would permit democracy…

— Noam Chomsky

For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common,…

— George W. Bush

There is a perception across the Middle East that America is weakened. I believe the perception is wrong. The United States remains the world's…

— Ehud Barak

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan