Quotes About Middle East

We don't need to bring 100,000 refugees in from the Middle East.

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.

I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.

The Iranian regime has been terrorizing the Middle East for 40 years. They've been the aggressor for 40 years. And finally this president, President Donald J. Trump, said 'enough is enough.'

I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.

The eradication of the Muslim Brotherhood is nothing less than an abolition of democracy and a guarantee that Arabs will continue living under authoritarian and corrupt regimes.

Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.

I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.

I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to another- of democratization by the parties in the region as a basic requisite of democratization in the Middle East.

I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instance, in the Middle East - even very conservative politicians in the region will say, 'You know, my daughter would really like to meet you,' or, 'Would you send a note to my granddaughter?'

If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse.

You know the Middle East is going crazy when Lebanon is the most peaceful place in the region.

Mr. Obama is the first president to have grown up in the region - he lived in Indonesia as an elementary school student - and he has never doubted that America is underinvested in Asia and overinvested in the Middle East.

Egypt is home to the largest Christian population in the Middle East, largely because they've been persecuted to brink of extinction everywhere else in the region.

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

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

By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.

We have been obtuse toward nationalism and identity issues in the Middle East and have lumped it all into the basket of "Islam.

Take Islam out of the equation, and there's a very good chance you'd still find the Middle East at loggerheads with the West.

War was not an option. Radios, trucks and automobiles, planes and missiles and bombs, were just not reliable. A few Middle Eastern countries carried on feuds, but without much enthusiasm.

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.