Quotes About Middle East

There is a conflict in the Middle East between two entities, and they're both right, each in their own way.

We can stay in Afghanistan and the Middle East forever, and it won't make a difference.

Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.

The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to see a son of ISIS, or even a grandson of ISIS, developing in the years to come.

The fact is, the Middle East has been going crazy for 50, 60, 70 years. So it's not like, 'Oh, I need an ISIS joke.'

When it comes to the greater Middle East, McMaster brings to the table his own deep knowledge of Iraq and Afghanistan, countries where he served for many years.

I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo for two years.

On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.

Working in the Middle East, daily I face the questions, disbelief, and accusations about how Americans could violate the human rights which they once championed.

Washington is agonizingly slow at learning from its mistakes. Especially in the Middle East.

Before I wrote 'God's War,' I probably did eight years of research into the Middle East, Judaism, Islam, Catholicisim, and all sorts of fabulous other things.

The complete lack of governance in huge swaths of the Middle East - that is the project of the American establishment.

I lit up the Middle East when I lit up the world in the 1990s and gave people here something to be proud of.

Around us in the Middle East there is total chaos. I'm not willing to give up on my land for this chaos.

The fact is that Germany is taking on its responsibility in the world - in the fight against IS, but also in the Middle East, in Africa and in Afghanistan.

America is a force for good in the Middle East.

As the lone democracy in the Middle East and America's most loyal ally, Israel deserves our attention and support.

Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Although I went to college in the United States - Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota - I returned to the Middle East for a year in 1970-71 to study at the American University of Beirut.

This mutual receptivity to each other's culture in the Middle Ages is now very much part of a long gone past. One revealing sign of today's lack of cultural receptivity to Western culture in the Middle East is that in today's Arab world— about 300 million people in more than 20 countries23— the number of books translated from other languages has been just one-fifth of the number translated by Greece alone, for a population of 11 million people.

Banning the institution of slavery itself long remained only a distant hope in much of Africa and the Middle East, even after it was a reality in the Western Hemisphere.

Until the 1800s, most people from the Middle East to the Western World believed what the Bible records about creation and the global Flood. The secular idea of millions of years did not gain extensive popularity until the 1830s, under the influence of a man named Charles Lyell — who opposed a global Flood!

Why have the Soviets stood aside and allowed us to settle Berlin, Vietnam and the Middle East? One, because the United States is big, mean and tough as hell and they know it. Two, the obsession with peace in the USSR. Twenty million Russian people were killed during World War II. We must have the fear elements working, but also the hope element.