Statesman Quotes

The Middle East is a region where predictions go to die.
The Palestinian Authority cannot hold the stick at both ends: to incite violence, to participate in it, and to tell the world how - what kind of underdog they are.
The red line must be drawn on Iran's nuclear enrichment program because these enrichment facilities are the only nuclear installations that we can definitely see and credibly target.
The Syrian rebels, weakened by infighting, have also been victims of the growing rift between the U.S. and its closest Arab allies.
There is a need to accept a limited disruption of civil liberties in order to penetrate terror.
There is a perception across the Middle East that America is weakened. I believe the perception is wrong. The United States remains the world's mightiest military, economic and diplomatic power by far, with reach and abilities beyond rival.
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.
There is no entity in the world that will dare attack Israel with chemical weapons.
They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.
To think that you can - as a Zionist, Jewish independent state at the end of the 20th century - rule over another people for generations without having any consequences - it's ridiculous.
Toward the Palestinians, Israel can only give. But when dealing with the entire Arab world, Israel can get a lot.
Try to think for your own why the Russians and the Chinese do not like the idea that whoever takes aggressive steps to keep order within his sovereign borders should not accept others to intervene physically.
Unfortunately, you cannot let your neck be kind of cut as a gesture for your neighbor, even if it's a good neighbor.
War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off.
We are living in an open world. There is a freedom of speech and, clearly, freedom of speculation.
When an army doesn't want to fight, you don't need much experience to win.
When you launch a surgical operation, you must already be well deployed to follow it through with larger forces. That complicates matters: you need to be ready for a full-fledged campaign on the operational level and have the diplomatic backing lined up as well.
Who can guarantee that if we allow the Palestinians to establish a state, we won't find rockets there as well, half a mile from the airport or 10 miles from Tel Aviv?
With the globalization, it's difficult for governments to impose decisions on private companies.
Yes, the world is short of perfect.
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