Middle East Quotes

There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.

If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.

We're working with our friends in the Middle East, many of which, as you know, are Muslim majority nations.

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.

The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

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

I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy.

Oil prices jumped to well over $100 a barrel, and analysts say it's due to tension in the Middle East. So, luckily, it's just a temporary thing.

The price of oil is rising because of all the unrest in the Middle East. And the unrest in Wisconsin is causing the price of cheese to go through the roof.

We need to unleash the military in unison with our partners in Europe and the Middle East to be effective.

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.

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

We call for, actually, a weapons embargo to the Middle East, which we can lead since we are supplying the majority of weapons which, in fact, then find their way into all parties on all sides.

We call for a new kind of offensive in the Middle East because our current approach has a track record and it's not a good one.

We need a new kind of offensive in the Middle East. It's called a peace offensive.

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

Terrorism has essentially become a franchise in the Middle East and North Africa and increasingly in other parts of the world.

We need to talk to all the players in the Middle East, not because we agree with them, but because they play a role.

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

Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.

The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East

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.

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.

A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.

Obviously I have concerns, right, about national security in terms of Russia, and China, and North Korea, and obviously, the problems we have in the Middle East.

You look at the Middle East, it's a total mess.

In our community, we have those from the Middle East and those from Asia ... setting up shops and providing goods and services we should be providing for ourselves.

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

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.

Religious distinctions are deeply important for many of the problems in today's Middle East, particularly between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Syria and Iraq.

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

Everything's going to be fine. She'll be back at work soon. Let's just keep the house clean." Oh yeah, I want to say, because a clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.

If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.

I'm worried about the world because there's chaos in the Middle East, and I think the Iranian deal [to lift sanctions] is going to continue the Shia-Sunni battles, the Persian-Arab battles.

We're being attacked, Britain is being attacked, our allies are being attacked because we've installed and backed and implemented a set of policies in the Middle East for the last years or more.

Now the question is, now that we are there, what should we do in the best interest of the U.S., not only from a standpoint of the necessity of some stable democracy in the Middle East.

Iran has always had a good relationship with Europe. The Middle East is Europe's neighbor, and we are a strong player in this region.

What we need to do with respect to the Middle East is strong, steady leadership, not wrong and reckless leadership that is all over the map.

You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East.

I think there is a general interest in films that deal with contemporary issues. Constructions of Iran, Islam, the Middle East as well as the U.S. itself are also of interest, it seems.

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.

In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder.

Politicians don't want democracy here in America, why would they want it in the Middle East?

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