The Middle East Quotes
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The Middle East Quotes & Sayings
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When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East.
— Chris Christie
Family trouble was the worst kind. Some families ran their own little versions of the Middle East.
— Tom Robbins
Failure is not falling to the ground; it is remaining there once you have fallen and the greatest failure is when you decide not to stand up again.
— Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.
— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
During a Middle East peace talk you insulted the Iraqi ambassador." "He was a pervert who liked little girls.
— Lee Goldberg
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[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.
— George W. Bush
Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.
— Richard Engel
Religions themselves are ... peace-loving. They can also be a constructive force in peace-building, and this also applies to the Middle East.
— Martti Ahtisaari
To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
— Queen Rania Of Jordan
Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
— Condoleezza Rice
Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.
— Prince Charles
We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
— Rand Paul
If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.
— Hillary Clinton
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.
— David Letterman
The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.
— Andre Vltchek
There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.
— Helen McCloy
There's too much tension in the world ... what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can't make peace.
— Megan McCafferty
He looked older, harder, perhaps wiser. The Middle East was like that. It turned hope to despair, idealists into Machiavellians.
— Daniel Silva
Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.
— Shlomo Sand
The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.
— Ehud Olmert
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
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
— Steven Spielberg
Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
— Jack Schwartz
These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.
— Noel Gallagher
If westerners cannot legitimately study the history of Africa or the Middle East, then only fish can study marine biology.
— Bernard Lewis
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
The CIA was always looking to tie every kind of criminal activity in the Middle East to al Qaeda.
— Kenneth Eade
It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.
— Madeleine Albright
In the Middle East in the summertime, to keep cool, a lot of people sleep on the rooftops.
— Daron Malakian
What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists.
— Nicola Sturgeon
Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil.
— Golda Meir
If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.
— Meryl Streep
We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.
— John F. Kerry
One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.
— Henry A. Kissinger
For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
— Karen Armstrong
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
— Adam Michnik
castigate Middle East experts for not anticipating the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011.
— Yuval Noah Harari
These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.
— Frank Carlucci
Israel is the only truly democratic, secular country in the Middle East, right in the middle of all of them.
— Brigitte Gabriel
The Iraqi war has transformed the Middle East.
— Leon Charney
One night of strategic bombing will restore all your lost prestige in the Middle East,
— Michael B. Oren
I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty.
— Christopher Hitchens
Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
— Rand Paul
To the girls of the Middle East: Be immodest, rebel, disobey, and know you deserve to be free
— Mona Eltahawy
Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the seeds were planted for a century of bloodshed.
— Richard Engel
I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East.
— Jalal Talabani
There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights.
— Mohammed Morsi
University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.
— Henry A. Kissinger
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
— Jose Saramago
Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.
— Christopher Hitchens
So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.
— Lee H. Hamilton
Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.
— Neill Blomkamp
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
— Henry A. Kissinger
As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.
— James Woolsey
A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
— Jimmy Wales
The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
— Joe Biden
I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
— Yasmine Al Masri
Although we live in a civilised society, the business world remains a jungle.
— Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.
— Stephen Kinzer
We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.
— Garrison Keillor
The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.
— Russ Carnahan
This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.
— Bashar Al-Assad
The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read.They taught me I had a language in heaven
and another language on earth. — Mahmoud Darwish
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People killing each other in the Middle East is not news. People not killing each other in the Middle East is news.
— Kelvin MacKenzie
Hillary Clinton, as an awful judge of the character of a dictator and butcher in the Middle East. Is she guilty or not guilty?
— Chris Christie
Melting icebergs aren't beheading Christians in the Middle East,
— Reince Priebus
Our safety requires a long-term military presence in the Middle East because that's where the plans to attack us are emanating.
— Rudy Giuliani
A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.
— Timothy Garton Ash
I've done two USO Tours, one in the Middle East and one in Asia, and spent time with the troops.
— Eion Bailey
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[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.
— Neil MacGregor
