Paul Kagame Quotes

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

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

If, God forbid, a war with Iran breaks out, it will be a nightmare. And we will all be in it, including the Persian Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia. No one will remain unscathed.

The 2003 war in Iraq may be considered the greatest error in American policy since the Civil War. Its ramifications are earth-shattering and will impact us and our safety for generations. It may completely unravel the entire Middle East forever.

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

As far as the Ukraine is concerned, it's a mess. And that's under the Obama's administration, with his strong ties to NATO.

We've just let too many things happen. And now, try to turn around and fix it. Getting involved in a [Syria] civil war directly was never something I thought made sense.

I think that's coming to an end. And, you know, when we ... we can't beg them [russians] to get along with us. And I think there was some of that going on, which has now ended.

In a new interview, Secretary of State Colin Powell repeated that the U.S. has no plans to attack Syria or Iran. After hearing this Donald Rumsfeld responded, 'Like he'd know.'

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.

For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem.

You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.

But if too many countries, as has been the case, interfere too much in the internal affairs, the political situation of Afghanistan, then of course we can't hope satisfactory results.

Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .

The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.

We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.

The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East, blocks the settlement of urgent crises, and intensifies looming threats to the West.

We cannot operate with one foreign policy objective in one area, and with a conflicting one next door.

Every government is in some respects a problem for every other government.

It is doubtful if anyone could recount a single instance in which a rupture of diplomatic relations has ever brought any benefit to the government that initiated the break.