Barack Obama Quotes

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

The Middle East does not follow Las Vegas rules. Whatever happens in the Middle East affects the rest of the world.

One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.

I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.

We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive.

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America's foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

I met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, visited our allies in the Arab Gulf, traveled to Tunisia and Iraq, met with President Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine, and visited our allies in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.

Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.

You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

It is not the position of the U.S. government to pressure Pakistan or to pressure India. If we can be helpful in bringing about a dialogue, then that’s a good thing

A strong, responsible Israel can become a stabilizer in such a turbulent region.

Israel is the strongest nation in the Middle East, but we have to apply our strength wisely.

The Middle East is not part of the world that plays by Las Vegas rules: What happens in the Middle East is not going to stay in the Middle East.

No one can plausibly argue that ridding the world of Saddam Hussein will not significantly improve the stability of the region and the security of American interests and values.

Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.