Middle East Quotes - Page 24

• In my opinion, we've spent $4 trillion trying to topple various people [on the Middle East] that frankly, if they were there and if we could've spent that $4 trillion in the United States to fix our roads, our bridges, and all of the other problems; our airports and all of the other problems we've had, we would've been a lot better off.

  Donald Trump

  Airports, Bridges, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq, because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

  Donald Trump

  War, July, Iraq

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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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

  Iran, Empowering, Unrest

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate", cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

  Meir Kahane

  Easter, Goodness, Impress

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• ISIL presents a growing threat not only in Syria and Iraq, but throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and now in the United States as well. Terrorists and their enablers will continue to receive the unwavering attention of law enforcement and the intelligence community.

  Devin Nunes

  Europe, Law, Iraq

  "6 indicted in alleged plot to support ISIS, Al Qaeda". www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2015.

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• In our community, we have those from the Middle East and those from Asia ... setting up shops and providing goods and services we should be providing for ourselves.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Community, Asia, Should

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• Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians.

  Shimon Peres

  Religious, Israel, Purpose

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• When America does not lead, the world is a dangerous and a tragic place. This is a bad deal. [Barack] Obama broke every rule of negotiation.Yes, our allies are not perfect, but Iran is at the heart of most of the evil that is going on in the Middle East through their proxy.

  Carly Fiorina

  Heart, Iran, America

  Annotated transcript: The Aug. 6 GOP debate, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• ISIS is a radical jihadist group that is increasingly sophisticated in its ability, for example, to radicalize American citizens, in its inability to exploit loopholes in our legal immigration system, in its ability to capture and hold territory in the Middle East, as I outlined earlier, in multiple countries.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Inability, Immigration

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• My hopes for Iran's future lies with women first and foremost. Iran's feminist movement is very strong. This movement has no leader or head quarters. Its place is the home of every Iranian who believes in equal rights. This is currently the strongest women's movement in the Middle East.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Strong, Lying, Believe

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• Without a deal [with Iran], the international sanctions regime will unravel with little ability to reimpose them. With this deal, we have the possibility of peacefully resolving a major threat to regional and international security. Without a deal, we risk even more war in the Middle East and other countries in the region would feel compelled to pursue their own nuclear programs, threatening a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Race

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight.

  Paul Krugman

  Spring, Democracy, Breakdown

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• There is a great danger to the world, not only to my country [Israel] but to the United States, to the Middle East, to peace, to all of humanity, from the prospect that such regimes that brutalize its own people, that sponsors terrorism more than any other regime in the world - that this regime acquires atomic bombs is very, very dangerous.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Israel, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.

  Serge Schmemann

  Narrative, Insult, Conflict

  "From the Editor" by Serge Schmemann, www.nytimes.com. December 02, 2010.

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• Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we're going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.

  Benjamin Carson

  Couple, Thinking, Years

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The Middle East is totally destabilized. A total and complete mess.

  Donald Trump

  East, Middle, Mess

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

  Tahir Shah

  Ancestry, Impossible, Importance

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• Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.

  Jesse Jackson

  Iraq, America, Long

  "Reverend Jesse Jackson". "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au.

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• The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Iron, People, Feelings

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.43, 北戴河出版

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• The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God--an anguished cry for peace.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Father, Blood

  Jimmy Carter (2010). “We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Rosalynn said, "Jimmy, if we could only get Prime Minister Begin and President Sadat up here on this mountain for a few days, I believe they might consider how they could prevent another war between their countries." That gave me the idea, and a few weeks later, I invited both men to join me for a series of private talks. In September 1978, they both came to Camp David.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Peace, War

  Jimmy Carter (1995). “Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation”, Puffin

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• University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Science, Long, Simplicity

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• It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

  Amos Oz

  Israel, Iran, Earthquakes

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• 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

  East, Terrorism, Middle

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• Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.

  John McCain

  Country, Unique, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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