Chris Matthews Quotes

You don’t know today which country is going to matter in three years

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.

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

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. That is why we are in contact with most of the problems forever, let us say, whether directly or indirectly.

Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

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

American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.

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

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

When you have an American Presidential election, everyone [in NATO] "goes to tea" for a while.

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

Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.

The situation of any leader in the Middle East is not easy.

America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.

There are no second chances in the volatile Middle East.

You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

There are lots of conflicts going on in the Middle East. It is unclear as to which country will emerge, if any, as the dominant or hegemonic power in the Middle East.

Iraq is not about oil.

Washington sees the various local and national conflicts in the Middle East as part of a battle for regional hegemony between the U.S. and Iran.

We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

The dramatic rise of Turkey in the councils of world power was one of the main geopolitical developments of 2010.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.