Middle East Quotations

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.

I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.

The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.

If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

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 sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

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. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.

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

There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

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

The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.

These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.

One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.

This administration, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton through their foreign policy, have betrayed the American people, because the weakness they've displayed has led to Putin's incursions in the Middle East and in eastern Europe, and has led - has led to significant problems in the Middle East as well, and the death and murder of lots of folks.

The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.

...if [the 9/11/01 attacks] had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots in twenty minute and they wouldn't have worried about the consequences because there would not have been any because the remaining terrorist states would have said 'we get the message.'

It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar.

There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

Israel Is A Hideous Entity In the Middle East Which Will Undoubtedly Be Annihilated.

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

I'm not naïve. I know perfectly well that there isn't a single Arab or Muslim in the world who would say: There has to be a Jewish state in the Middle East.

Today President Obama is in the Middle East. He met the new king of Saudi Arabia. Obama also met Saudi Arabia's first lady, the second lady, third lady, and fourth lady.

The combat [with ISIS] on the ground must be done by Muslim troops with our support. We must not get involved in perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

I think we've got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than in the Middle East.

We know that russians are deeply engaged in supporting Assad because they want to have a place in the Middle East. They have a naval base, they have an air base in Syria.

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.

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 national security.

The consequence could be that we would have an escalation that would take place that would not only involve many lives, but I think it could consume the Middle East in a confrontation and a conflict that we would regret.

We have to have a more realistic foreign policy and not a utopian one where we say, oh, we're going to spread freedom and democracy, and everybody in the Middle East is going to love us. They are not going to love us.

I think that we have to be very careful about who comes here from the Middle East.

We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that.

there’s too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can’t make peace.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

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

Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.

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 with them in their own language.

Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight.

Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?

It's easy to stand up and say I will destroy ISIS; I will make the sands in the Middle East glow in the dark. Well, that's fine, but you have to have something to do that with.

Jews know the Palestinians. And they know they're not really different. And they know they are from the same background. And they know if they coordinated that they could be an economic success and a real basis for a rebirth in the Middle East.

Melting icebergs aren't beheading Christians in the Middle East,

Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.

We have done a tremendous disservice, not only to Middle East, we've done a tremendous disservice to humanity.

We have been there for 15 years in the Middle East, and much more than that probably. And we have spent probably $4 trillion, maybe more than that. And it's time to do something about it. And it's time to also knock ISIS out. You got to knock ISIS out.

The Middle East is totally destabilized. A total and complete mess.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.