Saudi Arabia Quotes - Page 3

• 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 grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Europe, Arabia, Kenya

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The big risk in Saudi Arabia is that Ghawar's rate of decline increases to an alarming point. That will set bells ringing all over the oil world because Ghawar underpins Saudi output and Saudi undergirds worldwide production.

  Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari

  Oil, Risk, Arabia

  "Forecast of Rising Oil Demand Challenges Tired Saudi Fields" by Jeff Gerth, www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2004.

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• The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi Arabia is at the top of the list.

  Daniel Yergin

  Two, Arabia, Lists

  "American Morning With Paula Zahn" with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2002.

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• Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.' Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved. Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgement.... There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its 'right to exist' a favor, or a negotiable concession.

  Abba Eban

  Israel, United States, Arabia

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• Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa, Saudi Arabia, New York, and Yemen - suggest to our terrorist enemies that it was wrong and unwise to kill reasonable and affable people, or did the easy killing imply that self-absorbed and pampered Lotus-eaters would not much care who or how many were butchered as long as it was within reasonable numbers and spread out over time?

  Victor Davis Hanson

  New York, Past, Numbers

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• Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

  Julian Assange

  Feminism, Arabia, Sweden

  "Definition of paranoia: supporters of Julian Assange" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2012.

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• Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, told the BBC on Tuesday. Amr's talking points are so Sept. 10: It's supposed to destabilize the Middle East. The stability of the Middle East is unique in the non-democratic world and it's the lack of change in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt that's turned them into a fetid swamp of terrorist bottom-feeders.

  Mark Steyn

  Unique, Egypt, Iran

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• If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports from Saudi Arabia today.

  Jay Inslee

  Oil, Progress, Climate

  Jay Inslee, Bracken Hendricks (2013). “Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy”, p.58, Island Press

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• The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.

  Frank Carlucci

  Political, Arabia, Needs

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• It is common knowledge that Saudi Arabia is the most extremist of the Muslim States. It finances the infamous Madrassas (schools) that preach a litany of hate and turn out thousands of fanatical Islamic zealots. It indirectly provides the funding and its' citizens provide most of the fighters for Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda organization. It supports, financially and by other means, the Palestinian terrorists and other Muslim anti-Western groups throughout the world.

  James Byron Bissett

  Hate, Islamic, School

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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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• 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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