#middle east

Today, President Obama is making smart investments in clean energy - wind, solar, biofuels - as part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy that supports thousands of jobs, not in the Middle East, but in the Midwest. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#clean energy #east #energy #investments #jobs

As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives. ↗

— John McHugh

#dependent #east #fossil #fossil fuels #fuels

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. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#certain #certainly #east #enduring #history

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#best #despair #east #just #like

January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#democratic #democratic society #east #free #government

I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#around #babylon #bit #by the time #done

The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#countries #crisis #developing #developing world #east

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#bad #being #east #fed #goes

Well, a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East would be a wonderful thing. ↗

— Stephen M. Walt

#middle #middle east #thing #well #wonderful

I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it. ↗

— Montel Williams

#black #black and white #differences #eastern #europe