Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.
I must try desperately to absorb all information I can about the Middle East. I want to excel. I want to speak articulately about the politics of the Middle East and its religion.
The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't perform for a while, then ended up doing a one-woman show about Gilda Radner having cancer. It was called 'Gilda Defying Gravity,' and I did ...
I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks a...
Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agenda, somehow believe that the future of the world is being played out in the Middle East and Central Asia rather than East Asia has only served to accel...
It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.
Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.
There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.
I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.
Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.
Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.
To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
When I was a kid, while touring East Berlin - back when there was an East Berlin - I got my left foot stuck in an escalator in Alexanderplatz. A few hours later, thanks to blowtorches and chainsaws and East German soldiers and the U.S. Embassy, my fo...
