Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eventually the Darley Arabian races to supremacy, ... The Darley Arabian is responsible for 95% of all the Y chromosomes in the half-million thoroughbreds that exist worldwide.

Glenn Murray

It's all about perception. Just the idea of an attack in Saudi Arabia is enough to make the market jumpy.

Richard Engel

Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.

Elliott Abrams

For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies.

The rest of the world has long overlooked the potential of the Arab world. George Clooney was in Dubai last year and people are starting to look into this region. Making this film here is a very good statement for this area,

Bashar Assad

No threats will prevent us from continuing the struggle to liberate the occupied Arab territories and establish a just and durable peace in the region,

James Zogby

That is language that is so irresponsible, so reprehensible, I think he should be ashamed. As a country, it has been a consistent ally. The State Department describes them as a vital partner. I don't know why, unless it's simply that it's an Arab country, that he feels he can go over the top and use language of that sort.

The big move in oil happened over the last three days. I think we all understand the rules with oil now. You're going to have issues about inventories being low and that will push prices up. Then Saudi Arabia will say $30 a barrel is not sustainable so we're back at this game.

Oil still remains the big uncertainty out there for the market. I think the attack in Saudi Arabia and worries about Friday's OPEC meeting are unsettling financial markets.

Oil still remains the big uncertainty out there for the market, ... I think the attack in Saudi Arabia and worries about Friday's OPEC meeting are unsettling financial markets.

Saddam Hussein

No, these are all from the Arab history and all will be clear on time.

Arthur Golden

It's worth bearing in mind that Hamlet makes poor Danish history and that Lawrence of Arabia grossly oversimplifies the politics and cultures of the Middle East.

Ariel Sharon

It will be foreign minister meeting, the leaders meeting, and that is not the problem. The problem is how to try and talk to Arab leaders and I -- I was ready to go to Beirut to meet with them. That's what should be done,

It will take a lot of time for this extra oil to be delivered by OPEC. The fears people had about supply interruptions still remain because of the instability in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

It will take a lot of time for this extra oil to be delivered by OPEC, ... The fears people had about supply interruptions still remain because of the instability in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

Matthew Simmons

The 'twilight' of Saudi Arabian oil envisioned in this book is not a remote fantasy.

Ethan Zuckerman

The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.

I would like to stress this point undoubtedly: France sees the Arab Spring as auspicious. The Arab Spring holds out tremendous hope - hope for democracy and the rule of law, hope for peace and stability, hope for better future in which every person can pursue goals commensurate with his or her needs, talents and ambitions.

The Government puts out what I call a dog whistle about its attitudes to Arabic and Muslim people and it's very much taken up by the mainstream media,

Turkey does not have a bridge through tradition with Christian Europe, and therefore it should be part of the Arabian bloc ... What has made Europe great has been Jesus Christ.

Asa Hutchinson

To put this in perspective, planes with pilots from the United Arab Emirates fly into this country every day. We don't ban them. Ship pilots from the UAE can steer ships into U.S. ports every day. We don't ban them, either.

Elliott Abrams

We use American influence with Israel not to promote economic growth in the West Bank, but to try and impede Jewish - never Arab - construction in the capital city.

Golda Meir

We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us

We are equally responsible for this in the eyes of the Arab world. We are viewed as the enablers.

The president realizes that the whole world has changed. He's thinking about his record in the history books. I think he believes if there's going to be a model for democracy in the Arab world, it's got to be Egypt.

Khaled Meshaal

The position of Arab and Muslim capitals we visited so far has been positive.

Silvan Shalom

finally lead to a full diplomatic relationship with Pakistan as we would like to see with all Arab countries, but of course it needs to be done step by step.

Anthony Shadid

The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.

Ahmed Zewail

As someone from, and directly involved with, this part of the world, I am convinced Arabs are qualified to regain their glorious past.

James Zogby

This really is no more than Arab-phobia. For these politicians, the national interest of the United States is synonymous with their next election. They're not thinking this is a real threat. It's an election year, it's an Arab country, and there's a post-9/11 insecurity they can exploit. It's a lethal brew, and they're stirring it for all it's worth.

James Zogby

When you have members of Congress literally tripping over themselves to run to a microphone and they're saying, 'The Arabs are coming, the Arabs are coming,' preying off that fear because it's an Arab country, that constitutes bigotry.

Ismail Haniyeh

There is nothing defined, but all that we have heard from the Arab and Islamic states, officially and from the public, is reassuring.

Jalal Talabani

There is no real Arab empathy with the hundreds of women and children in Iraq killed on a daily basis at the hands of criminal terrorists who come from the Arab countries -- These criminals and executioners, who consider the Shiites -- who constitute the majority in Iraq -- to be infidels, and consider the Kurds - the second largest nationality in Iraq-to be traitors, are glorified by the Arab press.