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Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil

– Golda Meir

Sustainable prosperity and stability of the nations in the Middle East cannot be realized without re-engineering their state models to more open socioeconomic systems allowing equal access to national resources and opportunities instead of the current closed systems based on tribal, ethnic, and religious quotas

– Med Jones

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.

– George Orwell

There is an undercurrent of cultural changes in the Middle East region driven by the globalization of media and the Internet. Smart leaders will anticipate these changes and initiate gradual democratic reforms to avoid political instability and economic problems.

– Med Jones

My boat goes west, your's east. Heaven's a wind for both journeys.

– Chao Li-hua

But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

– William Shakespeare

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

– William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1

For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

– George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

– Julius Caesar, (attributed)

I drift like a cloud, Across these venerable eastern lands, A journey of unfathomable distances, An endless scroll of experiences... Lady Zhejiang here we must part, For the next province awaits my embrace. Sad wanderer, once you conquer the East, Where do you go?

– Tom Carter

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

– Jawaharlal Nehru

If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

– Victor Hugo

The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

– Abdul Baha, April 19, 1912, Earl Hall

The sun rises from the two places: From the East and also from where the Science rises!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

– James Russell Lowell

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

– James Russell Lowell

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

– Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)

– Ronald Reagan

West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

Why cross an ocean when you can cross a river Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here (On Middle East peace initiative)

– Shimon Peres

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

– Robert Francis Kennedy

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