Saudi Arabia Quotes - Page 2

• India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century.

  Rahul Gandhi

  India, Arabia, Century

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• In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example, Saudi Arabia convicted a man for carrying a phone booklet with characters in an alphabet from his native Eritrea, which the police interpreted as occult symbols. He was lashed three hundred times and imprisoned for more than three years.

  Steven Pinker

  Country, Book, Character

  "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined". Book by Steven Pinker, October 4, 2011.

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• We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It’s in Afghanistan, it’s in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it’s in the United States.

  Tom Tancredo

  Easter, Fighting, Numbers

  "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 2012.

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• Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before God, are themselves compatible with liberty, equality and free political choice.

  Noah Feldman

  God, Believe, Political

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• In fact, an Islamic revival - already abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia - is likely to become the mobilizing impulse for the increasingly pervasive new nationalisms, determined to oppose any reintegration under Russian - and hence infidel - control.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Islamic, Iran, Arabia

  "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1997.

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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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• I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.

  Dave Eggers

  Kings, Cities, Arabia

  "Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror' - interview". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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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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• If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.

  John Bolton

  Egypt, Iran, Turkeys

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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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• Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Kings, Views, Together

  Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.cnbc.com. March 11, 2011.

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• It's important to reach out to moderate Arab nations, like Jordan and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

  George W. Bush

  Kuwait, Egypt, Important

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• Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders, Saudi Arabia is making raids and arrests, Libya is dismantling its weapons programs, the army of a free Iraq is fighting for freedom, and more than three-quarters of al-Qaida's key members and associates have been detained or killed. We have led, many have joined, and America and the world are safer.

  George W. Bush

  Army, Fighting, Government

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 2 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.

  Newt Gingrich

  New York, Zero, Long

  "The Proposed New York Mosque and the Constitution" by Peter Ferrara, www.foxnews.com. August 04, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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