Quotes About Middle East

There is no longer a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Hillary would be great for Israel, she would be great for the Middle East, she would be great for the world. Hillary will be excellent for those who back a two-state solution. For those who don't believe in the two-state solution, then she would not be so great... because she believes in it.

The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.

In the Middle East, it is clear that peace will never be reached without solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A two-state solution must be found and enforced.

Jerusalem will always be the capital of Israel, even if someday a peace agreement were to be reached.

The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agenda, somehow believe that the future of the world is being played out in the Middle East and Central Asia rather than East Asia has only served to accelerate China's rise and the U.S.'s decline.

The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

Iraq is the last great frontier in the Middle East … . In Iraq, 80 per cent of the oil wells ever drilled have been discoveries. —David Horgan, chief executive of the Irish oil company Petrel, January 20072

Most of us chose to oppose the war as an act of folly by a president who mistook himself for a king, and his British sidekick who wanted to be on the winning side of history. There was little interest in the idea that war was a rational policy choice, that the architects of the invasion had unleashed ferocious violence because they could not crack open the closed economies of the Middle East by peaceful means, that the level of terror was proportional to what was at stake.

I've often said that the ISIS-Syria-Iraq mess is about as bad as it could be.

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

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.

I know that Britain and the United States and others ship arms in the Middle East, 10 or maybe 100 times more than the Russian does.

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.

Criticism of the Middle East should not be directed only at Saudi Arabia. Human rights abuses are happening throughout the Arab world.

While in the Middle East, I saw how quickly religious sectarianism and bigotry can lead to the disintegration of a country - how leaders manipulate people to fear others who are different, who look different, or who have different beliefs.

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

Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.

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

People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people's governments, especially in the Middle East.

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.

Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.

Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.