Saudi Arabia Quotes

• I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

  Dave Eggers

  Home, People, Mountain

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• I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Country, Compare, Saudis

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

  Country, Powerful, Justice

  "In Rare, Blunt Speech, Saudi King Criticizes Syria Vetoes" by Rick Gladstone, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2012.

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• To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

  Islamic, Arabia, Would Be

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• Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief.

  Hillel Neuer

  Religious, Fire, Rights

  "UN-real: Saudi Arabia, China among nations vying for seats on Human Rights Council". www.foxnews.com. October 22, 2013.

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• In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

  Brother, War, Blood

  "Saudi: US Iraq presence illegal". news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2007.

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• Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

  Book, Blessing, People

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• As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

  Islamic, Rights, Old Testament

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• The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.

  Barack Obama

  Friendship, United States, Arabia

  Barack Obama's remarks during his meeting with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in the Oval Office, Wshington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 13, 2015.

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• We have no lesson to teach Russia if we concurrently roll out the red carpet to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China.

  Marine Le Pen

  Russia, Qatar, Arabia

  "I Don't Want this European Soviet Union". Interview With Mathieu von Rohr, www.spiegel.de. June 3, 2014.

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• I saw a report yesterday. There’s so much oil, all over the world, they don’t know where to dump it. And Saudi Arabia says, "Oh, there’s too much oil." They -- they came back yesterday. Did you see the report? They want to reduce oil production. Do you think they’re our friends? They’re not our friends.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Oil, Yesterday

  "Donald Trump's Solution on Gas Prices: Take Iraqi Oil Fields". Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnewsradioonline.com. April 18, 2011.

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• You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Kings, People, Arabia

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Country, Growth, Demand

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Strong, Kings, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Towers, Kingdoms, Threat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Heart, Oil, Arabia

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• Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago), and is likely to go into decline in the very foreseeable future. There is only a small probability that Saudi Arabia will ever deliver the quantities of petroleum that are assigned to it in all the major forecasts of world oil production and consumption.

  Matthew Simmons

  Years, Oil, World

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• The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

  Salman Rushdie

  Mistake, Oil, Giving

  ‘There is no right not to be offended’ by Mukund Padmanabhan, www.thehindu.com. October 6, 2012.

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• There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Oil, Long, Arabia

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• Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.

  Keith Henson

  Suicide, Growth, Arabia

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• I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Views, Arabia, Followers

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• The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.

  James Buchan

  Country, Dog, Men

  "Lifting the veil" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2004.

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• Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

  James Buchan

  Arabia, Virtue, States

  "Lifting the veil". www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2004.

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• Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night.

  James Buchan

  Night, Men, Self

  "Lifting the veil". www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2004.

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• It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

  Barbara Boxer

  Running, Office, Arabia

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