Rashid Khalidi quotes:

Hillary Clinton made no outreach to Muslim Americans or Arab Americans. So they have to insert themselves.

I don't know what to say about Donald Trump.

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.

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.

Donald Trump is unpredictable.

Donald Trump really has authoritarian, dictatorial instincts.

Hillary Clinton has had a very rough experience with Benjamin Netanyahu.

I am deeply concerned about the kind of people Hillary Clinton's surrounded herself with in the past.

I think that we'd be very wise not to predict anything with Donald Trump.

Russia and Iran are not going to allow the Assad regime to fall.

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.

I don't know what would happen in a Trump administration, as far as how he would behave.

Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.

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.

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.

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.

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?

You cannot export revolution, progress, by force of arms.

You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.