Middle East Quotes

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

No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.

For the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.

Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy.

No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.

You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.

You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.

Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that's we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel ; it should be comprehensive.

Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.

The Bible teaches that history began in the Middle East, and someday history will end in the Middle East.

Perhaps the most troubling area in the world goes from the Balkans through the Middle East and in Central Asia.

In the Middle East there are two kinds of regimes - those that could be worse, and those that couldn't be worse.

We need a leader who won't be silent - as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been - as millions of Christians are persecuted throughout the Middle East.

Hillary Clinton, as an awful judge of the character of a dictator and butcher in the Middle East. Is she guilty or not guilty?

Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East, is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty?

When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East.

I've been to Japan, I've been to China, I've been to Africa, I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Europe a little bit. I've never been to South America.

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.

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

Things were very different back in 1992. There was unrest in the Middle East, we had a gridlocked Congress, and everybody was talking about Bill Cosby.

I'm not naive. 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.

The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.

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

I'm going to make our country safe. We're going to have borders in our country, which we don't know. People are pouring into our country and coming in from the Middle East and other places.

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq, because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

We propose to rebuild the key tools of missile defense starting with Navy cruisers that are the foundation of our missile defense capabilities in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur are spinning in their grave at the stupidity of what we're doing in the Middle East.

I don't want people to chop off the citizens' or anybody's heads in the Middle East, OK? Because they're Christian or Muslim or anything else.

We have spent, right now, $6 trillion in the Middle East, and America is falling apart. It's not right.

War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.

America's objective in the Middle East is to create democracy in the same way that my goal on a first date to feed women.

Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in the Middle East.

The Middle East is America's 'champagne room'. No matter how much you spend, you will still never get what you want.

Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.

I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.

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

On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

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, who are a poor people.

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

I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.

For decades, free nations tolerated oppression in the Middle East for the sake of stability. In practice, this approach brought little stability and much oppression, so I have changed this policy.

[T]he people of Iraq have spoken to the world, and the world is hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the Middle East.

God told me to smite Osama bin Laden, so I invaded Afghanistan. Then He told me to smite Saddam Hussein, so I invaded Iraq. Now He wants me to work on the Middle East problem.

We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

As a matter of fact, it's in our interests that we help reformers across the Middle East achieve their objectives. This is the fundamental challenge of the 21st century.

A failed Iraq in the heart of the Middle East will provide safe haven for terrorists and extremists. It will embolden those who are trying to thwart the ambitions of reformers.