Quotes about Middle East

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

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

Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East.

I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo for two years.

Until the 1800s, most people from the Middle East to the Western World believed what the Bible records about creation and the global Flood. The secular idea of millions of years did not gain extensive popularity until the 1830s, under the influence of a man named Charles Lyell — who opposed a global Flood!

As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don't need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.

Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians.

The Middle East has been a part of my life since I was a young man, when I went to teach in Cairo.

Both during the elections and as Prime Minister, I have repeatedly and publicly said that I support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.