Roger Waters Quotes

Israel has a problem not because of the perception that the entire world is against us, but because of the government's problematic policies.

I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

[President Obama's policies regarding Israel] looks like modern anti-Semitism disguised as Western Liberalism.

You do not build a foreign policy based on one man.

Israel's interest is all I care about.

I've served on the International Relations Committee.

I don't look at Israel through the prism of running an election.

There's been a significant amount of Israelis who are joining my party because they think that Israel has to have a tough stance in this crazy environment called the Middle East.

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

My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.

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?

My constituents support Israel.

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

In his final year in office, Clinton decided that his contribution to Middle East peace would lie not in the removal of Saddam Hussein but in a grand attempt to resolve the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel. With this, he missed his last chance to deal forcefully with the man he was publicly committed to overthrowing.

My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.

The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.

The Finnish way of dealing with Russia, whatever the situation, is that we will be very decisive to show what we don't like, where the red line is.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.

I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.