Regional Conflict Quotes

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

The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.

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.

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

Russian control of Korea would be a dagger pointed at the heart of Japan,.

The Arab world is facing its own version of an Iron Curtain, imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for power.

The world has to save Syria. I mean, this has dramatic implications for the entire region, globally.

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

For 60 years, my country. The United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy … in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.

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

There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and I think everyone knows that.

There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.

Iran must stop meddling in the affairs of Arab countries, and we refuse to be taken by Iran to an axis against Arab countries.

The situation in Congo shows nothing for which you could hold Rwanda responsible.

I think that 'Judaizing the Galilee' is not an offensive term. We used to talk like that.

The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.

There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.

We're talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria. This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked, whatever you want to call it ; if you strike somewhere, you have to expect the repercussions somewhere else in different forms in ways you don't expect.

In choosing to use violent extremism as an instrument of policy, the government of Pakistan, and most especially the Pakistani Army and ISI, jeopardizes not only the prospect of our strategic partnership but Pakistan’s opportunity to be a respected nation with legitimate regional interest.

I've always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they'd just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don't need America or someone else to help.

Afghanistan can't police its borders, and its neighbors give sanctuary and assistance to insurgents.

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

Thanks to my generosity, imperial troops were dispatched to Cambodia, costing millions of coins, and brought you security by destroying the Thai. Our soldiers were stationed among you to bring you peace. This was like bringing the Cambodian [Khmer] people out of the mud and into a warm feather bed, and this is well-known by all …. Anyone who can think for himself should be grateful to my court; why are there people who hate us?

We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.

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