east Quotes

“It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.”

“The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.”

“One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.”

“He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.”

“The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.”

“The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.”

“The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.”

“I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'”

“For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.”

“You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.”