Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Hoshyar Zebari

They fear Iraq is drifting from the Arabs, being divorced from the Arab world, and the increased influence of another neighboring country. This time, we are seeing some positive moves by the Arab League toward more realization of the situation on Iraq.

Chris Doyle

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

Ahmed Chalabi

You may say that the Iraqis are overcompensating for Saddam's deceptive pro-Arab slogans. This does not justify what is happening, but might explain it. Saddam used to give the Arabs privileges in Iraq while depriving the Iraqis of similar privileges. There is a reaction in the street and it should be contained. We cannot turn our backs on our Arab milieu.

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.

Steven Spielberg

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

T. E. Lawrence

Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.

Rahul Gandhi

India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources

Rahul Gandhi

India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century.

Chuck Schumer

Every administration has this idea to talk tough to Israel and make nice to the Arabs and the Palestinians, and that's the way to bring about peace. It's counter-productive - it's actually the opposite.

James Harrison

Dublin will provide a great new destination for Arab nationals to visit. The warmth and great personalities of the Irish people will make sure of a warm welcome.

Dubai has been trying to prove to the rest of the Arab world that there is life after oil, and that in fact it's a better life. The good news is there is room for a second and a third Dubai, just like there was room for a second Singapore in Asia.

Rabih Alameddine

As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.

Arthur Hertzberg

Do the Americans want democracy in the Middle East? Do the Americans want the oil wells of Iraq and of Saudi Arabia controlled by regimes which are revolutionary, and which are Islamic fundamentalist? Mr. Bush wants that like he wants a hole in the head.

Khaled Meshaal

This of course is a big sum, and it is bigger than what Arab summits in Amman and Beirut had approved.

Golda Meir

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

Basmah bint Saud

On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

Mordechai Vanunu

We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against neighboring Arab countries. What has already been exposed about the weapons Israel is holding can destroy the region and kill millions.

We are very concerned, ... We feel that the Arab world is being radicalized by the recent Israeli actions.

James Zogby

We see Arabs as an objectified problem. We see the culture as less than ours, we see them as more violent than we are.

Peter Rodman

We saw three successful elections last year... In that success of those elections, you can see the gravitational pole working on the Sunni Arab population pulling them into the political process.

We feel that by actually making the effort, not just talking about it here, but also going to Iraq and getting that information to the Iraqi news outlets and conveying it in the Arabic language will be a more effective.

Michael Scheuer

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book.

Martin Van Creveld

The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts well. Until 1967, he was careful to keep most of his forces east of the Jordan River. When he momentarily forgot these realities in 1967, it took Israel just three days of fighting to remind him of them.

To reach final details about the establishment of the expected government and, at the same time, to continue our dialogue and discussion with Egyptian government in order to reconstruct our relationship with Egypt and with the Arab countries.

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?

We also discussed the part of Arab chambers in the development of trade and of investment in the Arab countries, especially in Saudi Arabia.

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.

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.