Leon Charney Quotes

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

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president.

There's a lot of egos in these countries, like the French, the Germans, et cetera, and so they keep funding and rehabilitating Yasser Arafat.

Is Turkey one of the Ayrab countries with which you don't get on very well?

We [Iran and the United States] have a common destiny in this region [The Middle East].

We have to review our foreign policy and stop rolling out the red carpet for countries we know to be funding fundamentalism: countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The Arab nations must be on our side. And if we catch them financing, if they funnel money to IS, that's when sanctions and other actions have to kick in.

I do think it's fair to say that there are times when President Obama has not been engaged enough with the Middle East.

A decade ago, I lived in Saudi Arabia, in Riyadh, as the treasury attache to our embassy there, and I was, of course, on the ground in the Middle East whenever the Arab Spring started, and it's fast-forward a decade later, nine years later. It's hard to believe that I am still working on this issue. You know, here in the State Department.

Saudi Arabia is an important country to the United States.

I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia.

Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar, and for our Qatari friends.

Any claim between the U.S. and Iran, any conflict is bad for Iraq.

If Israel did not exist, the United Nations would go out of business.

My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.

We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency.

Washington is agonizingly slow at learning from its mistakes. Especially in the Middle East.

Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?

I believe that the U.S. is the strongest country in the whole world and the country that supports Israel the most. I believe that it has the strength to push Israel towards peace.

It is difficult to think of a foreign policy issue that preoccupies and polarizes world opinion as much as the Palestinian question.

I hope I say this the right way, but I'm convinced that Israel will not trust other countries to do what they have to do to protect their own security.

Trump very much wants to be liked by Putin and I think sincerely admires him. Putin doesn't know how to deal with somebody who positions himself like that.

We must apply the same standards to countries such as Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt that we apply to Iran, Russia and Syria.

My constituents support Israel.