Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is not enough Arabic content available on the Internet. But there's no motivation to put more Arabic content on the Internet as long as you don't have a system to find the content.

Those that can will do so, either officially -- as Saudi Arabia has -- or unofficially, simply because of the temptation of higher prices,

Cindy Sheehan

We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy ... not for the real reason: because the Arab Muslims who attacked us hate our Middle Eastern foreign policy.

Geraldine Brooks

It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been exacerbated by internal corruption, a lack of effective investment, and the political cynicism of the Arab states, who often did not have the best interests of the Palestinians at heart.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

With the common Iranian threat bringing the Sunni Arab world and Israel closer together, an Israeli-Palestinian peace would go a long way in improving relations and rebuffing Iran's regional ambitions.

Frank Carlucci

I think the real target of al-Qaeda is Saudi Arabia by the way. They hate us and we're a vehicle to get at Saudi Arabia. I think Osama bin Laden really wants to topple that regime and have his people move in, but that's a whole other story.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The Arabs have a God, the Jews have another, and the Catholics have another! And they're all fighting to maintain that they worship the one real God. Idiots!

There already has been a drift away from U.S. assets by Arab investors. You may well have a further drift.

We have formed a legal defense team that includes prominent American, European, Asian and Arab lawyers who were chosen on the basis of competence and merit to put up a strong defense.

We just don't have the same relationship with the United Arab Emirates that we have with Britain. Do we really want to entrust security to a foreign government that had connections to some of the 9/11 hijackers?

I call on all the Arab states to follow the Jordanian initiative. Today's visit has broken a barrier and sent a political message,

Brent Scowcroft

I believe that everyone in the administration, and throughout the Arab world, thought he could not survive the defeat that he did, ... We underestimated his skill and ruthlessness.

Our concern is that this episode will send exactly the wrong signal not only to Arab investors but to investors around the world.

Stephen Kinzer

Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but none has as long a history of war, resistance, and terror as Chechnya.

The Muslim heaven features prominently in the Quran, Arabic poetries and Hadith. The Jewish heaven, though, is still a mystery; it's mystic.

A free and democratic Arab world aligns with America's security interests.

Oil & Gas was the only sub-component to decline last month. Rising 'geopolitical risk premiums' for light crude oil - linked to recent unrest in Nigeria and international tensions over Iran's decision to resume nuclear research - were more than offset by sharply lower natural gas and propane prices - the result of exceptionally warm winter weather in key U.S. heating oil markets. A foiled late-February terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia has bolstered the risk premium in oil prices.

Nicholas Kristof

During the Arab Spring, I learned all sorts of things from Twitter. I wouldn't necessarily trust that information, but it gave me ideas about questions to ask. You can really learn things from the wisdom of crowds.

Gary Myers

Do you really think a group of kids from rural Virginia decided to do this on their own? Decided that the best way to embarrass Arabs and make them talk was to have them walk around nude?

Hans Blix

Saddam Hussein has certainly figured himself to be a sort of emperor of Mesopotamia and the leader of the Arab world.

Tariq Aziz

President Mubarak assumes a role for himself which both Washington and London have not given to him, ... In reality there is no noble, fair and intelligent person in Egypt, in the Arab homeland or the whole world sharing Mr. Mubarak in his deduction.

Silvan Shalom

I very much hope that those same good relations with the governments of the Arab world will lead to contacts with the people themselves.

It would be a shame if a foreign party were to benefit when there is a qualified Arab partner.

The statistics that we have show that 95% of the Sunni Arabs said no. If 95% of a segment of the population can't stop the constitution, then who can?

Amr Moussa

The situation is very dangerous and sensitive. But we in the Arab world have enough awareness to behave and react to face all the big and dangerous problems.

They're (the Emirates) not going to retaliate because they need us. Who is going to protect that little outpost of modernity on the Arabian Peninsula if it isn't us?

David Harris

American Jews are schizophrenic. Our polls year after year after year show the very same thing: On the one hand, on the peace process options, a majority of American Jews support - let's call it the liberal option. At the very same time, a clear majority of American Jews in the next breath say the real goal of the Arabs is to destroy Israel.

This is a positive indication since a large number of people in the Arab world don't view the current conflict as an Islam-Christian conflict.

Jalal Talabani

This is the first time a Kurd has been freely elected to be the president of an Arab country.

Chris Doyle

The reputation of Britain in the Arab World is at an all time low.