Middle East Quotes - Page 20

People killing each other in the Middle East is not news. People not killing each other in the Middle East is news.

Kelvin MacKenzie

America, People, Killing Each Other

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We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.

Abdallah II

Thinking, People, Brotherhood

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We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that.

John W. Snow

Alaska, Important, Energy

"Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some sort of an unpragmatic dialogue with my neighbors.

Etgar Keret

Strong, Wish, Want

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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

Long, Burning Fossil Fuels, Fossils

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Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home.

Kenny Marchant

Home, Fighting, East

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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.

Jonathan Krohn

People, Missionary, Would Be

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The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of others, and then, when social pressure builds, be blamed and scapegoated, distracting those at the bottom from the crimes of those at the top. Peasants who go on pogrom against their Jewish neighbors won't make it to the nobleman's palace to burn him out and seize the fields. This was the role of Jews in Europe. This has been the role of Jews in the United States, and this is the role of Jews in the Middle East.

Aurora Levins Morales

Europe, Groups, United States

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Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.

Willy Russell

East, Middle, Solutions

Willy Russell (2014). “Shirley Valentine & One For The Road”, p.4, A&C Black

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From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging of human rights and the abandonment of longstanding humanitarian principles. We need competent and responsible states to meet the needs of "we the peoples" for whom the UN was created. And the world's peoples will not be fully served unless peace, development and human rights, the three pillars of the UN, are advanced together with equal vigour.

Ban Ki-moon

Rights, Together, East

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Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and - now - Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Children, War, Giving

"'For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind'". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

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Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

Daniel Barenboim

Europe, Conflict, Humanist

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There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

Deng Xiaoping

Oil, Earth, China

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The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

John Keegan

People, Islam, Half

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I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.

Helen Thomas

Regret, Party, Heart

"Helen Thomas 'Retires' After Anti-Israeli Jew Remarks". "The Two-way", www.npr.org. June 7, 2010.

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I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

Hans Blix

Thinking, Together, India

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While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in a conflict in Syria – half a world away from the United States – more than 47,000 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006 in Mexico. A deeply troubled state as well as a demographic and economic giant on the United States’ southern border, Mexico will affect America’s destiny in coming decades more than any state or combination of states in the Middle East.

Robert D. Kaplan

Destiny, America, People

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Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Kenny Marchant

Years, Kuwait, Iraq

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The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.

Kenny Marchant

Oil, Issues, Energy

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Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.

Michael Mandelbaum

Europe, People, Goal

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Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.

Ehud Olmert

Reality, Miracle, Looks

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There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East. Is Israel going to continue to be "Fortress Israel"? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony. And no matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

Abdallah II

Country, Spring, Moving Forward

Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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Intervention in Syria is not an option. President Obama has already helped foment this civil war and supported the al-Qaeda jihadists. This is an explosive region, and more US intervention means more people will die. We should be choosing peace - not a new conflict. More so than anyone else, my supporters know that America cannot afford another unlawful, immoral war in the Middle East. Stand with me and tell President Obama to stay out of Syria.

Ron Paul

War, Mean, America

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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.

Jay Leno

Oil, Barrels, Analysts

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September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East.

Martin Amis

Night, September 11, Islam

"The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2002.

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