Saad Hariri Quotes

In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.

Hizbullah is not a militia.

Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.

I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.

Israel lost their power to intimidate during the second war with Lebanon.

This Middle East thing is maddening.

In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

The Lebanese security authorities and the remnants of the Syrian system in Lebanon, and directly the Syrian regime from top to bottom, is responsible for every crime and every drop of blood spilled.

The Middle East is a region where extremists go all the way and moderates just go away.

The fact is, the Middle East has been going crazy for 50, 60, 70 years. So it's not like, 'Oh, I need an ISIS joke.'

Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.

Syria is still the foundation of the axis of evil, and I'm not sure it's appropriate to transfer Israel's northern front to the axis of evil.

As prime minister, Hariri did not directly confront Hezbollah or the Syrians, but conflict simmered nonetheless.

I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

What's very interesting about the violence in Lebanon and the violence in Iraq and the violence in Gaza is this: These are all groups of terrorists who are trying to stop the advance of democracy. They're trying to thwart the will of millions who simply want a normal, hopeful life. That's what we're seeing.

I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.

Iraq will spread them even more and chop them up.

In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing its newfound strength via a war with its old enemy, Israel, which it officially wants destroyed.

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.