Barack Obama Quotes

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

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.

I must try desperately to absorb all information I can about the Middle East. I want to excel. I want to speak articulately about the politics of the Middle East and its religion.

So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.

What starts in the Middle East never stays in the Middle East..

Iran is the base of an axis of evil which is a problem for all the world.

Iraq is not about oil.

Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.

No border that touches Israel is always secure.

Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.

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

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

If the principle product of the Middle East were broccoli, we would not worry about the Middle East.

Syria is still the foundation of the axis of evil, and I'm not sure it's appropriate to transfer Israel's northern front to the axis of evil.

On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.

The focus is on the Middle East, so there are a lot of eyes on the battlefield. But there are other things that are happening around the world, in Northern Africa, things happen in the Southern Hemisphere and in Central and South America.

In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map, Libya was stable, Egypt was peaceful, Iraq was seeing really a big, big reduction in violence, Iran was being choked by sanctions, Syria was somewhat under control. After four years of Hillary Clinton, what do we have? ISIS has spread across the region and the entire world. Libya is in ruins and our ambassador and his staff were left helpless to die at the hands of savage killers. Egypt was turned over to the radical Muslim Brotherhood, forcing the military to retake control. Iraq is in chaos. Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons.

Another mess I inherited, and we have imposed new sanctions on the nation of Iran who has totally taken advantage of our previous administration, and they're the world's top sponsor of terrorism, and we're not going to stop until that problem is properly solved, and it's not properly solved now.

I've covered Israel just as I cover other politics.

You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.

Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.

If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.

I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.

The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. Without doubt, it is a good drama. And on occasion, there are situations so unimaginable, if not ludicrous, as to make them almost comic. But the cast is constantly changing, the audience is often disengaged, and it seems at times that no one is actually running the show.