The Middle Eastern states aren’t nations; they’re quarrels with borders. P J O’Rourke
Moses dragged us for 40 years through the desert to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil. Golda Meir
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other. Dan Quayle
You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria. Henry Kissinger
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world. Aneurin Bevan