Middle East Quotes - Page 27

• There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We are, for example, dealing with ancient and very highly-developed cultures in Korea, Japan, China and the Middle East. What is the impact on cultural and scholarly vitality forcing everyone to do their work in English? I do not have an answer, but this issue has been very much on my mind.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Impact, Japan, Korea

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There are fewer Arabs in Tel Aviv, one of the largest cities in the Middle East, than there are in Chicago, the largest city in the American Midwest. How do you accomplish such a remarkable feat of social engineering without massive violence?

  Max Blumenthal

  Engineering, Cities, Violence

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Gas prices in many parts of the country are nearing $4 a gallon; it could get even worse as unrest spreads throughout the oil-exporting Middle East. Yet the Obama administration once again seems to see no crisis. It has curtailed new leases for offshore oil exploration for seven years and exempted thousands of acres in the West from new drilling. It will not reconsider opening up small areas of Alaska with known large oil reserves.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Country, Years, Oil

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• We need a leader who won't be silent - as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been - as millions of Christians are persecuted throughout the Middle East.

  Carly Fiorina

  Christian, Leader, Needs

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in the Middle East.

  Dov Davidoff

  Political, Ironic, Body

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 18, 2011

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• I hope we are able to shift debate over to the Middle East and change this debate to how we help the people in their home countries rather than believing we can be their relief valve for the poverty and the grief that`s in the world by bringing people here.

  Steve King

  Country, Grief, Believe

  "All In with Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2015.

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• Many analysts compare Turkey with countries in the Middle East, but I think we need to compare it with Russia. Both countries come from a tradition of empire, and also from a tradition of the strong state.

  Elif Safak

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Experts, Needs, Imperialism

  "CNN Reliable Sources". www.cnn.com. January 26, 2003.

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• At the moment, the extremists have significant financial popular and theological backing in the Middle East. And that is an enduring phenomenon. And it's one that is going to require a long, ideological war to win.

  Chuck Todd

  War, Winning, Long

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• All across the Middle East in the streets, people are demanding democracy. It's amazing. The only way in America you get people to get worked up like that is to threaten to give them health care.

  Bill Maher

  America, People, Giving

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• Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

  Dan Quayle

  War, Kuwait, Iraq

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• Here's the Middle East. Here's the mosque, here's the church, open the temple, everybody's MAD!

  Maria Bamford

  Mad, Church, Mosques

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• For the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.

  Barack Obama

  Clear Goals, Years, Oil

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• I`m impressed that people out there in Pennsylvania, deer hunter country, have had it with these stupid wars, that they don`t go along with the neocon theology, they don`t go along with the big money people or the evangelicals that always seem to want to fight, especially in the Middle East.

  Chris Matthews

  Country, War, Stupid

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think that we have to be very careful about who comes here from the Middle East.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Careful, East

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2015.

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• Every tribe needs a good front man to sell the program. Who better to convince the Middle East to give up the oil, than a brown man with a Muslim name?

  Lenny Bruce

  Giving Up, Men, Names

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Turkey in general became too involved with what is happening in Egypt and in Syria. Some politicians with neo-Ottoman dreams developed this idea of being a major player in the Middle East, which hasn't gone as expected.

  Elif Safak

  Dream, Player, Egypt

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  Fatema Mernissi

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

  "Remembering Islamic Feminist Fatema Mernissi". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 10, 2015.

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• We need to unleash the military in unison with our partners in Europe and the Middle East to be effective.

  Jeb Bush

  Military, Europe, Needs

  "Jeb calls Obama comment linking climate change to terrorism 'perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard'". www.dailymail.co.uk. November 25, 2015.

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• America's objective in the Middle East is to create democracy in the same way that my goal on a first date to feed women.

  Dov Davidoff

  America, Goal, Democracy

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jul 05, 2011

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• I have said many times that I wish there was no oil in the Middle East, and more water. People would have been much happier than they are right now.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Oil, People, Water

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

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• I hope that things will change, because it's a pity that a country like Iran is not where it should be, or where it has been historically. It's important for Iran, for all of the Middle East, and also for the rest of the world.

  Farah Diba

  Country, Iran, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the Middle East there are two kinds of regimes - those that could be worse, and those that couldn't be worse.

  Bret Stephens

  Two, Kind, Regimes

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• There's 150,000 students here from the Middle East. If 40% of them have overstayed their visa, don't we need to know where they are, what they're doing, are they obeying our rules?

  Rand Paul

  Needs, Students, Visa

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as General MacArthur so delicately put it.

  Robert M. Gates

  Army, Should Have, Land

  "Defense secretary warns against fighting more ground wars" by Larry Shaughnessy, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2011.

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