Regions Quotes - Page 8

• It's no wonder that America's engagement in the region has strong, sustained, bipartisan support. So I'll be handing my successor a strong foundation - including closer ties with Singapore - on which to continue building, and I'm optimistic that will happen.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Optimistic, America

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• It is in the interests of all of us - the United States, China and the rest of the world - to make sure that the rules of the road are upheld. These rules and norms are part of the foundation of regional stability, and they have allowed nations across the region, including China, to grow and prosper.

  Barack Obama

  Foundation, United States, World

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• The United States, therefore, works to ensure that any actions we take are consistent with international laws and norms - including those reflected in the Law of the Sea Convention. It's worth remembering that our presence in the region is nothing new.

  Barack Obama

  Sea, Law, United States

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• [We] are focused on protecting and defending our common security and upholding a rules-based order that undergirds the peace and prosperity of the region and the world. In this work, we are grateful for our continued partnership with Singapore.

  Barack Obama

  Grateful, Order, World

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• Iran has always had a good relationship with Europe. The Middle East is Europe's neighbor, and we are a strong player in this region.

  Mir-Hossein Mousavi

  Strong, Player, Iran

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In a post 9/11 world, in which the uncritical essentializing of people from the "Third-World" has been legitimized; Iraq and Afghanistan have been dehumanized in an attempt to disseminate enlightenment in those "dark" regions; the discourse of "honor killings" is prevalent in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan and has carved a niche in Western academic discourse as another instance of the incorrigible bestiality of the Orient.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Dark, Iraq, People

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Writing, People, Fiction

  Source: www.alternet.org

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• I think we're on the wrong path in this country and have been for a while. People are in their camps divided by region, economic situation, race, religion, ideology. And there's a lot of just staying in your camp using technology to bolster your case without actually debating with other people, without discussing.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Country, Technology, Thinking

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• What are the prospects for an Arab state serving a leading role comparable to the role that other states place in other regions? There is no obvious candidate. Saudi Arabia has the money but a relatively small population. Iraq was a great potential leader, as a sizable country with great oil resources and a highly educated population, but it went off in the wrong direction.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Oil, Iraq

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• I will suspend immigration from regions comprised of radical Islamic terrorists, including the suspension of the Syrian refugee program which is taking in thousands and thousands of people that we have no idea where they come from, no idea who they are.

  Donald Trump

  Islamic, Ideas, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We have to see that all regions of India, particularly the east and west, are brought on par in development parameters.

  Narendra Modi

  East, Development, West

  Source: www.deccanchronicle.com

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• Stability means you do what we say, and what we say is that Colombia and the resources of the Andean region shall be freely available to the rich and powerful of the world, particularly US-based multinational corporations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Mean, World

  Source: www.madre.org

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• When we talk about carpet bombing ISIL, that's what it looks like, creating huge numbers of civilian casualties, which increases the numbers of refugees flowing out of the region, which increases the misery of the Syrian people.

  John R. Allen

  Creating, Numbers, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It is from that region of silence, that wordless knowing comes.

  Roger Housden

  Knowing, Silence

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The EPA's [Clean Power Plan] is another example of Washington's lack of understanding when it comes to rural and Western energy issues. I oppose this new rule because it hurts my district, which has four coal-fired plants that power Arizona's big cities, small towns, businesses and residences. These plants also provide good-paying jobs in our tribal and rural regions.

  Ann Kirkpatrick

  Hurt, Jobs, Cities

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The Andes region is not stable. So we can expect to see more US intervention. It could be under any kind of pretext. We can no longer use the Russians as an excuse, as we did in Central America in the 1980's, so drugs will have to do.

  Noam Chomsky

  America, Drug, Use

  Source: www.madre.org

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• General [James] Mattis has said that the deal's in place. We can't unilaterally pull out of it without support from our allies because the sanctions wouldn't bite as deeply. And so he'll find other ways to push back against Iran in the various conflicts that Iran is fomenting around the [Iran] region.

  Peter R. Mansoor

  Iran, Support, Allies

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A surprise to others, but not to me, since I've watched this closely for eight years now, is how George W. Bush has internalized the founders' belief that all human beings are endowed by their Creator with a certain inherent yearning for freedom. In turn, Bush has applied this to his vision for the Middle East, believing that a democratic transformation in that region is possible, given that inherent desire for liberty within all hearts, including the hearts of Arab Muslims. People disagree with that, which is fine, but that's the Bush vision.

  Paul Kengor

  Believe, Heart, Eight

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both countries [Pakistan and India]. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, India, Atrocities

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• Similar problems are arising in Egypt too. The question is whether the military will release its grip which has been extremely strong for the past 60 years. So this is happening all over the region and particularly strikingly in Pakistan.

  Noam Chomsky

  Strong, Military, Past

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• We're talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria. This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked, whatever you want to call it ; if you strike somewhere, you have to expect the repercussions somewhere else in different forms in ways you don't expect.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Talking, Somewhere Else, Different

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect when you're going to have instability and the spread of terrorism all over the region that will influence the west directly.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Government, People, Different

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• My country and me, we are part of this region, we're not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me ; it should be as part, as a whole, as comprehensive. That's how we have to look at it.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Looks, Should

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Player, Government, Middle East

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Party, Middle East, Different

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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