Arabic Quotes

I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, `cause I`ve got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it`d be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

Unlike a lot of American specialists in the Middle East, who did one Fulbright year and now find their language is rusty, I kept up my Arabic.

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn`t know the poems would travel. I didn`t go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.

We have to think carefully about which languages those are. French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in the UK may well prove to be a major asset in this effort.

The major security and intelligence services in the West are missing a lot by neglecting the enormous amount of writing on the Internet, first of all because this is in Arabic.