Chris Christie Quotes

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of instability now stretches from Algeria to Pakistan.

Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

Iraq is falling apart.

There's no doubt that Iran funds and supplies Hamas with weapons.

What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists.

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

Africa is a very dangerous place.

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

The Middle East is undoubtedly in for a rocky time. In Palestine we have a situation which is badly fouled up by the past mistakes of many people, including ourselves. These probably cannot be settled without great unpleasantness, including violence.

When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.

I have always wondered why the Muslim world is in the eye of virtually every storm, in my lifetime at least?

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.

Failed states have become breeding grounds for conflict.

The Middle East is a region where extremists go all the way and moderates just go away.

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

Terrorism often finds a home in states mired in civil war …

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

The future is Afghanistan.

There is a real need to construct a different Middle East. The Middle East must change because the world has changed. And instead of oppositional armies that are fighting usually one against another, now we have a net of terrorists that are trying to destroy everything. They are not two; they are hundreds.

The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to see a son of ISIS, or even a grandson of ISIS, developing in the years to come.

By terrorising the people, the Taliban have sown deep doubts about the government.

Anytime ISIS takes ground, it's a bad thing.

I grew up in Punjab when terrorism was at its peak.