Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salam Fayyad

We are in desperate need of Arab aid.

Those who are representing the brother Sunni Arabs are not elected,

Steven Spielberg

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.

Jim Webb

Secretary Clinton and I have worked well together, but the Arab Spring is a different question... This administration, collectively, made some very bad decisions, and they now have to climb out of a deep hole.

Silvan Shalom

I am trying very hard to improve relations with the Arab and the Muslim world,

Silvan Shalom

I am sure that this meeting will be followed by more meetings in the future. We hope that finally it will lead to full diplomatic relations with Pakistan as we would like it with all Muslim and Arab countries.

Richard Jones

Maybe they wanted someone who could provide the Arab perspective, too .

For us this is very good news. The Brazilian market opens up one more opportunity for Arab exporters, especially in North Africa.

Khaled Meshaal

If the door of the West is closed, the door of the Arab and Islamic east should stay open. We have heard good promises and excellent commitment (from Arab and Islamic states).

Karen Hughes

I would be glad to go back to the United States and talk about the Arab women I've met.

Silvan Shalom

She's coming also to try and narrow the gap between Israel and the Palestinians and to help us strengthen our relations with the Arab and Muslim world.

It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest of civilization, who have got a program. It's not blind violence. It's with a purpose. They want to destroy the state of Israel. They want every westerner out of the Arab countries, Middle East and elsewhere.

Jerusalem is the city where Jewish kings are buried, and not Arab terrorists,

Jerusalem is the base for any peace settlement in the Middle East, and without the return of full Arab control over Jerusalem, there will not be peace in the Middle East,

I said it was a difficult meeting. It was not up to the level of our expectations or the level of the expectations of many Arab and international parties that helped in organizing this meeting with the Israelis.

Fareed Zakaria

Some of these forces have gained strength because of a lack of other alternatives. For decades the Middle East has been a political desert. . . . In much of the Muslim world Islam became the language of political opposition because it was the only language that could not be censored. This pattern, of dictators using religious groups to destroy the secular opposition, has played out in virtually every Arab country.

Naguib Mahfouz

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me.

Pankaj Mishra

The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.

The Arab League would be wrong to lend its blind support to the Khartoum regime.

The Arab League is melting at the edges. It is a time of change, in many dimensions.

The Arab League has good connections to many parties in Iraq and can use these parties' offices and power to back up the political process. These horizons are welcomed and will witness real support from the Iraqi government.

The Arab countries ought to be working to convince Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to halt the violence and restart the negotiations,

John Polson

I would love to live stream them all, so if you're in New York and you come along, you can watch Tropfest N.Y., and six weeks later you are watching Tropfest Arabia or Tropfest Australia live stream, and so they are all connected.

We examined Iraq's Arab dimension, its unity and all its negative aspects,

Saddam Hussein

You call yourself a hero and a leader of the Arab nation, you are a nobody.

We hope that the advertisement will get Arab consumers to consider whether it is fair to boycott a dairy company that has had nothing to do with these caricatures.

We hope that our Arab brothers would provide this support and provide it quickly because unfortunately there has been a shortage and lack of commitment.

Queen Rania of Jordan

We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.

We've been very satisfied and continue to be satisfied with our cooperation with Saudi Arabia with this matter.

Iraq will continue dialogue with any Arab government who wants dialogue, within the context of Arab integration, unity and independence,

I hope ... I will be able to rally the Arab nations, the European Union, the United Nations and others around the proposition that we need to get to a cease-fire and get to a political discussion as soon as possible, ... Meet the Press.

Shimon Peres

I hope that he will do his best and be able to do something concrete on the ground, ... I'm sure the United States expects Israel to listen to Arab needs as well and that is what we are doing in a very open manner and fair way and I hope it will lead to some ... achievements.

Noam Chomsky

In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly - 80-90%, numbers like that - Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don't like Iran - Arabs generally don't like Iran - but they didn't consider it a threat.