Rashid Khalidi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You cannot export revolution, progress, by force of arms.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Progress #Arms #Revolution
You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Country #Soldier #Veteran
As is always the case with American presidential elections, nobody's talking about the fact that the empire will be ruled from Washington, and foreign policy has just not been on anybody's screen, unfortunately.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Talking #Presidential #Empires
There's absolutely no reason for NATO to be sticking its fingers up the nostrils of Russia at every orifice. I mean, it's absurd. It's absolutely absurd.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Mean #Russia #Reason
Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Country #Thinking #Russia
I think that we'd be very wise not to predict anything with Donald Trump.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Wise #Thinking #Trump
I am deeply concerned about the kind of people Hillary Clinton's surrounded herself with in the past.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Past #People #Kind
Hillary Clinton has had a very rough experience with Benjamin Netanyahu.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Clinton #Rough
Russia is not going to give up easily on Syria. They've had a relationship with that country since 1955. It's very close to them.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Country #Giving Up #Russia
We have an even worse situation in Syria, where the United States' allies are actually supporting people who are violently opposed to the United States, who are dangerous, radical Islamist fanatics. I mean, where is the logic of that? When are we going to call the Saudis on the support of intolerant, bigoted, fanatical types of Islam? When are we going to call this ally?
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Mean #People #Support
President Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're not going to - we're not going to advance NATO into East Germany, if you allow the unification of Germany." Where is that pledge? Where is the logic behind a military alliance, devised in the time of communism, before the Berlin Wall fell, now being in the Ukraine, in Poland, in Estonia, in Latvia and Lithuania? I don't understand.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Wall #Military #Ukraine
You want to bring the Assad regime down? You have to beat the Russians and the Iranians in Syria. That is not going to happen. Like it, don't like it - it's not going to be very pleasant.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Want #Beats #Regimes
Russia and Iran are not going to allow the Assad regime to fall.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Fall #Russia #Iran
Hillary Clinton made no outreach to Muslim Americans or Arab Americans. So they have to insert themselves.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Clinton #Made #Outreach
A lot of Muslims, a lot of Arab Americans, Muslim Americans were very attracted to the Republican Party - conservative social values and so on. But Trump has horrified them.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Party #Social Values #Conservative
I don't know what would happen in a Trump administration, as far as how he would behave.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Administration #Trump #Behave
I don't know what to say about Donald Trump.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Trump #Knows
Donald Trump is unpredictable.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Trump #Unpredictable
Donald Trump really has authoritarian, dictatorial instincts.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Instinct #Trump

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