Arabs Quotations

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

Sudan is not Arab enough for Arabs and not African enough for Africans.

My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

The Arabs have a God, the Jews have another, and the Catholics have another! And they're all fighting to maintain that they worship the one real God. Idiots!

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

The Palestinian Arabs will have their autonomy, we will have our security. We shall live together.

Malaysians talk with Mauritians, Arabs with Australians, South Africans with Sri Lankans, and Iranians with Indonesians. The Indian Ocean serves as both a sea separating them and a bridge linking them together.

As someone from, and directly involved with, this part of the world, I am convinced Arabs are qualified to regain their glorious past.

As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.

We stood out. Me and my brother JoJo were the only two Mexicans in our whole school, and so was my little brother, in elementary school. We would have people come up to us and say, 'What are you?' and we would say, 'Well, what are you? We're just human like you!' They would just freak out. They thought we were Indians or Arabs or Iranians or something.

We have never said we wanted a Kurdish state. The Arabs have never said they wanted a totally Arab state. So I think as long as we all agreed to democracy we should be flexible and meet in the middle.

Since sectarian war is already underway between Sunni Arabs and Shiites in Baghdad and some other parts of the country, it is hard to see how a centralized Iraq run by Shiites could serve the interests of its Sunni population.

I felt as if Hafez Al Assad was talking! He has send a clear message to his people, Arabs and the whole world that Syria is strong and fear can never find its way into the hearts of Syrians,

If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.

Human rights - especially those of non-Moslems or non- Arabs - simply do not have the same absolute value that they do in the West.

I think the Israelis should decide what they want -- peace with Arabs or not.

Over the last half-century, anti-Semitism has been the essential theology of the Arab world. The Arabs have wasted trillions in oil royalties on weapons of war and propaganda . . . In their flight from reason, they have failed to modernize or civilize their societies, to introduce democracy, or to consolidate the rule of law.

Our Sunni Arabs brothers made a big mistake when they boycotted the elections. But they are an important group and we cannot ignore them and therefore they must take part in the democratic process.

The aspirations of Sunni Arabs should be met, ... the constitution is to serve everybody and not only one community of the Iraqi society.

Who knows what's going to go on there if the Arabs feel pressed?

Time and again, I am struck by how seldom I hear the word, hurriya , 'freedom,' in conversations about politics in the Arab World, ... Much more common among Arabs is the word, adil , 'justice.'

The Quartet - the United Nations, the European Union, Russia and the United States - must move past their formal meetings. The Security Council must go beyond presidential and press statements after its monthly meetings on the Middle East and the Arabs must do more that what they are doing now,

Those who are representing the brother Sunni Arabs are not elected,

What we have to ask is that Arab leaders and Arabs themselves, who see the importance of having good relations with Europe and the Western world, come out and speak clearly about the importance of not letting the situation deteriorate to the point that the only one who suffers is moderate Islam.

We add our voice to those of Arabs around the world, and especially to those in Iraq , who have condemned this act of kidnapping. We ask that she be returned to the protection of her family immediately.

Why did the issue only surface with an Arab country? Here is a perfect example of clear discrimination against Arabs and Muslims.

When you have members of Congress literally tripping over themselves to run to a microphone and they're saying, 'The Arabs are coming, the Arabs are coming,' preying off that fear because it's an Arab country, that constitutes bigotry.

We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us

We see Arabs as an objectified problem. We see the culture as less than ours, we see them as more violent than we are.

Brazil is paying greater attention to the Arabs in terms of import.

Every administration has this idea to talk tough to Israel and make nice to the Arabs and the Palestinians, and that's the way to bring about peace. It's counter-productive - it's actually the opposite.

Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

The statistics that we have show that 95% of the Sunni Arabs said no. If 95% of a segment of the population can't stop the constitution, then who can?

The Sunni Arabs are way apart on the issue of federalism... I doubt if they would come on board even during the next one week. But next time I think the MPs will approve the draft without the Sunnis.

Do you really think a group of kids from rural Virginia decided to do this on their own? Decided that the best way to embarrass Arabs and make them talk was to have them walk around nude?

Arabs usually participate in fairs in Brazil, where we also make contacts.

Arabs cross to collect the grain that they left in the abandoned villages and we set mines for them and they go back without an arm or a leg.

Any group, particularly the big ones, has its own peculiarities. The Arabs cannot represent the Kurds and vice versa neither. We are aware of the situation and I think the next coalition should include everyone.

You may say that the Iraqis are overcompensating for Saddam's deceptive pro-Arab slogans. This does not justify what is happening, but might explain it. Saddam used to give the Arabs privileges in Iraq while depriving the Iraqis of similar privileges. There is a reaction in the street and it should be contained. We cannot turn our backs on our Arab milieu.

American Jews are schizophrenic. Our polls year after year after year show the very same thing: On the one hand, on the peace process options, a majority of American Jews support - let's call it the liberal option. At the very same time, a clear majority of American Jews in the next breath say the real goal of the Arabs is to destroy Israel.

This plan is necessary to save the Jewish people for the long-term, ... Anyone who knows our history understands that we've never had an Arab partner. Every Zionist move to reconcile with the Arabs failed, so the borders of the Jewish state have to be consolidated in the best way possible.

The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.

Accepting that Arabs have the right to elect their own leaders means accepting the rise of governments that do not share America's pro-Israel militancy.

It was envisioned as a second wave after 9/11, and he (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) wanted to use Southeast Asians because he thought they could get into the U.S. and hijack the planes more so than Arabs because the U.S. would be more on alert to Arabs after 9/11.

I told (the sources) the story would be about both a post-9/11, Arabs in America kind of thing and racial profiling. The quotes showed they at least tacitly agreed with my column.

The nice thing with the Arabs is that with age comes respect.

The near total destruction of the Iraqi marshlands was a major ecological and human disaster, robbing the Marsh Arabs of a centuries-old culture and way of life,

The near-total destruction of the Iraqi marshlands under the regime of Saddam Hussein was a major ecological and human disaster, robbing the Marsh Arabs of a centuries-old culture and way of life as well as food in the form of fish and that most crucial of natural resources, drinking water,

In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly - 80-90%, numbers like that - Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don't like Iran - Arabs generally don't like Iran - but they didn't consider it a threat.

If the peace process moves toward ... an imbalanced peace, the Arabs must stand in one line to prevent it,

In this region, as well, in many places, workers, be they Palestinians or other Arabs or south Asians, are trapped in horrible conditions, denied justice and their basic humanity.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

I supported this effort because it was very important to bring a new generation of Arabs to the United States to better understand Americans and to promote closer people-to-people contact between the Middle Eastern countries and us,

Iraq's Kurds are an active part of Iraqi society... and Arabs consider them as brothers. The identity of Iraq cannot be defined in such terms,

Certainly the violence in Iraq has been much lower than it might have been, because there's been a fair deal of restraint among Shiite leaders. And that might end now - they may feel the need to really go after the Sunni Arabs as a diversion.

I feel betrayed. The Arabs are laughing at us and the prime minister doesn't car,

The Iraqi people are going to have a chance to show the whole world what Arabs are capable of.

These are places where Arabs and Jews would not normally travel and people they would not normally meet. The journalists write about what they find, how they feel and what they experience on these visits. Often their reactions are not necessarily what you would expect. It opens the door to a new type of dialogue between very different sectors of Israeli society.

All Iraqis from Shiites, Sunnis, Arabs and Kurds are here,

The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon or Churchill.

The chances of bringing Sunni Arabs to the political process are almost lost. The Sunni Arabs will suffer a lot, unfortunately. Everybody in Iraq is going to suffer from this.

The Arabs are a backwards people who eat nothing but Camel dung

What I really want to say is that what the world needs is a feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, blacks, Jews, Arabs - we're all brothers!