David Duke Quotes

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

America went into Iraq. We shouldn't have gone into Iraq. We shouldn't have gotten out the way we got out. The world is a total mess.

You get America out of Iraq, you get Israel out of Palestine.

The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.

First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

American foreign policy towards Egypt, even before the Arab Spring, was tentative. When the Muslim Brotherhood moved against the NGOs—many of whom were American, President Obama, instead of raising Hell, raised questions.

Every president I worked for, at some point in his presidency, would get so pissed off at the Israelis that he couldn’t speak.

If the United States disengages from many issues confronting the international community it will be replaced.

There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.

The Israeli prime minister, whoever that person is, should have an open invitation to come to America to speak to Congress and the American people.

The last thing that Israel needs is to be part of the internal agenda in the United States between Republicans and Democrats.

Jared Kushner is the last person that should be trying to bring peace to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

This is why, as a prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more thing: Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand. But I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.

I think the war in the Mideast, how we got into it and how we're going to address the current problems, are issues that every American should be concerned about.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump basically share a policy of brute military strength. And both, I think, make a lot of Americans uneasy about our foreign policy going forward, which needs a frank discussion. Likewise on the issue of student debt and the future of our younger generation.

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Once in 1979, [Zbigniew] Brzezinski gave an important slogan: "Bye-bye PLO." After two months, I was in Tehran saying to him: "Bye-bye Brzezinski." Who can imagine that America will lose one of its strongest bases?

On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States.

America has to stand by our allies. I think the tension that existed between Israel and the United States was very unfortunate.

Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.

I supported Israel 100 percent as a senator for 28 years and I've supported it 100 percent as Secretary of State.

The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories.

America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.