Ilhan Omar Quotes

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

There is nothing in common between the United States and Saudi Arabia except Israel.

We have to review our foreign policy and stop rolling out the red carpet for countries we know to be funding fundamentalism: countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Defending human rights should be an important objective of foreign policy, and that, too, will sometimes be hard to reconcile with an economic agenda, especially when it comes to dealing with rich but repressive players like China and Russia.

American policymaking in the Islamic world must begin with a foundation of respect for Muslims, especially when they tell us about their faith.

What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.

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

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

I urge North Korea's leaders to reflect on Burma's experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.

Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

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 want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.

Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

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

You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.

You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East.

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

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

I don’t think America wants democracies in the Middle East. They wouldn’t be nearly as friendly to us