Barack Obama Quotes

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.

Yemen is one of the most dangerous spots in the world.

Libya is still a mess right now.

Iraq is not about oil.

The Gates of Hell have been opened in Iraq.

War is never a good environment in which to run.

The situation of any leader in the Middle East is not easy.

Iraq does have many, many different tensions.

Where the West has intervened in African domestic affairs, such as it did in Libya 2011, the country became a cradle of extremism that exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to the rest of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

Libya is a huge disaster.

In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.

I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.

I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.

And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.

Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like to see the Egyptian people avoid this fate.

Israel is very much endangering.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

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

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

The road ahead is not easy. Iraq is currently the center of the war on terror.

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

Egypt is going through difficult times and we cannot allow it to carry on.

Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.