Craig Ferguson Quotes

I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a celebrity.

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

I know that many in Europe are unhappy with their governments' policies toward the Palestinians.

Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

The sheik is, thank God, still alive and this hurts Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama.

I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.

I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either.

The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East, blocks the settlement of urgent crises, and intensifies looming threats to the West.

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

The jihadists watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening.

the awakening of the Arab nation, and the effort of the Jews to reconstitute the ancient kingdom of Israel…. These movements are destined to fight each other continually until one of them wins.

When you're dealing with the Middle East, 2000 years is the normal wait for something to happen.

For years now, anti-Americanism has served as a means of last resort by which failed political systems and movements in the Middle East try to improve their standing. The United States is blamed for much that is bad in the Arab world, and it is used as an excuse for political and social oppression and economic stagnation. By assigning responsibility for their own shortcomings to Washington, Arab leaders distract their subjects' attention from the internal weaknesses that are their real problems

A U.S. invasion of Iraq could turn the whole region into a cauldron, and thus destroy the war on terrorism. A military campaign very likely would have to be followed by a large-scale, long-term military occupation.

Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld did not invent preemptive and preventive wars; they have a long history in U. S. foreign policy.

The so called “Arab Spring” … is really a situation which is creating more threats so far than positive incentives.

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

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

The conflict in the Middle East is complex, multi-faceted, and unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.

We talk about the '68 Democratic Convention. I was too young to really know a lot about it, but - and didn't even watch it, but I have read about it, and I know enough about it to know that it damaged the Democratic candidates.