Top Middle East Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Middle East quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.
- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Collection: Middle East
Image of Willy Russell
Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.
- Willy Russell
Collection: Middle East
Image of Brent Scowcroft
Perhaps the most troubling area in the world goes from the Balkans through the Middle East and in Central Asia.
- Brent Scowcroft
Collection: Middle East
Image of Joaquin Castro
Terrorism has essentially become a franchise in the Middle East and North Africa and increasingly in other parts of the world.
- Joaquin Castro
Collection: Middle East
Image of Ali Khamenei
[There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state.
- Ali Khamenei
Collection: Middle East
Image of Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Collection: Middle East
Image of Jeffrey Goldberg
There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.
- Jeffrey Goldberg
Collection: Middle East
Image of Lester Holt
You look at the Middle East, it's a total mess.
- Lester Holt
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Image of Mark Durie
The Middle East is rejecting any other religions, so it's a one sided multiculturalism.
- Mark Durie
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Image of George Ball
Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.
- George Ball
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Image of Baron Vaughn
The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.
- Baron Vaughn
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Image of Lawrence Davidson
The continual linking of the notions of terrorist and terrorism with Muslims and the Middle East is, essentially, an act of propaganda that cannot help but promote "Islamophobia."
- Lawrence Davidson
Collection: Middle East
Image of Edward Said
It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar.
- Edward Said
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Image of Rebecca Solnit
I feel like we're in a truly revolutionary period, not just in terms of practical activities to overthrow regimes in the Middle East or Occupy but also in terms of radical redefinitions. I feel like workers are a big part of it, but there's so much more going on.
- Rebecca Solnit
Collection: Middle East
Image of Rand Paul
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
Collection: Middle East
Image of Donald Trump
The Middle East is totally destabilized. A total and complete mess.
- Donald Trump
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Image of Neill Blomkamp
Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.
- Neill Blomkamp
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Image of Amos Oz
What is likely to happen? Either an escalation of violence or an entire change in the whole Middle East theater. It may well happen, and I say this to my Palestinian friends, that the Palestinians have in a certain way missed their hour. They had their moment when the world's public opinion was behind them, and a considerable part of the Israeli public was willing to compromise with them.
- Amos Oz
Collection: Middle East
Image of Madeleine Albright
It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.
- Madeleine Albright
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Image of Bernie Sanders
I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East.
- Bernie Sanders
Collection: Middle East
Image of Khaled Mashal
The U.S. alleges it wants to democratize [the Middle East] whilst it seeks to reverse election results not legally or through polls, but by force, fostering chaos and supporting, financing and arming the corrupt.
- Khaled Mashal
Collection: Middle East
Image of Helen McCloy
There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.
- Helen McCloy
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Image of Jill Stein
We need a new kind of offensive in the Middle East. It's called a peace offensive.
- Jill Stein
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Image of Recep Tayyip Erdogan
There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Image of Recep Tayyip Erdogan
When we strengthen our relations with the Gulf states, when we cooperate with the Arabs, everybody asks if we are looking for a new geopolitical place. But in the Middle East and the Gulf, you can find German, French and British goods everywhere. German relations to these states are very good, as are English and French relations. Does this make them Arab-oriented?
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Collection: Middle East
Image of Janeane Garofalo
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
Collection: Middle East
Image of Billy Graham
The Bible teaches that history began in the Middle East, and someday history will end in the Middle East.
- Billy Graham
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Image of Pope Francis
Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.
- Pope Francis
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Image of Bashar al-Assad
It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.
- Bashar al-Assad
Collection: Middle East
Image of John F. Kerry
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
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Image of Daniel Barenboim
I'm not naive. I know perfectly well that there isn't a single Arab or Muslim in the world who would say: There has to be a Jewish state in the Middle East.
- Daniel Barenboim
Collection: Middle East
Image of Megan McCafferty
there’s too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can’t make peace.
- Megan McCafferty
Collection: Middle East