#middle east

You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#east #going #how #know #middle

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#certain #certainly #east #enduring #history

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#best #despair #east #just #like

The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#deceptively #developing #east #economy #entire

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#east #freedom #help #into #middle

I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#around #babylon #bit #by the time #done

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#art #book #certainly #east #i

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#cultures #east #generations #matter #middle

I always thought security was a joke at New York airports, and in U.S. airports to begin with. You can go through any European or Middle Eastern airport and things are a lot tougher. ↗

— Richard Drew

#always #any #begin #eastern #european

Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#arabs #authority #compatriots #east #including