Jumblatt Walid Quotes

#1. We do not want to be in the middle of an axis that starts in the Mediterranean and ends in Tehran. We do not want to be a barricade for [Iran's] nuclear facilities.

Walid Jumblatt

#2. Even in these days of eBay and superencrypted anonymous purchasing over the Internet, the safest way to buy stolen stuff is to meet a total stranger and hand over a wedge of untraceable cash. They don't know you, you don't know them - the only problem is where to meet.

Ben Aaronovitch

#3. We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

Walid Jumblatt

#4. I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

Walid Jumblatt

#5. Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

Jonathan Raban

#6. Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

Walid Jumblatt

#7. We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.

Walid Jumblatt

#8. The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

Walid Jumblatt

#9. The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

Walid Jumblatt

#10. The older I get, and the more collections I do, the more I'm driven by real style and beauty. My aim is to reveal and not to display women.

Phoebe Philo

#11. I am thinking of poets who haven't written well in years
but who rubbed against the sun twenty years ago
Aren't they in their own kinds of prisons too?

B.J. Ward

#12. There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.

Walid Jumblatt

#13. The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

Walid Jumblatt

#14. The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

Eric Liu

#15. If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.

Walid Jumblatt

#16. How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

Walid Jumblatt

#17. I rot on the wall, my own
Dorian Gray.

Anne Sexton

#18. Positive thoughts, positive life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind ...

Mary McCarthy

#20. Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.

Walid Jumblatt

#21. If you raise your gaze, you don't see the boundaries anymore.

Thomas Muller

#22. Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.

Ann Druyan

#23. I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

Walid Jumblatt

#24. No one can live under degradation.

Walid Jumblatt

#25. Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

Walid Jumblatt

#26. We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

Walid Jumblatt

#27. There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle ... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

Walid Jumblatt

#28. I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

Walid Jumblatt

#29. The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.

Walid Jumblatt

#30. Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.

Emilio Pucci

#31. We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.

Walid Jumblatt

#32. The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

Walid Jumblatt

#33. Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.

Walid Jumblatt

#34. I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.

Benjamin Franklin

#35. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting ... it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.

Walid Jumblatt

#36. The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy ... which is good.

Walid Jumblatt