Saudi Quotes - page 5

I always found it ironic when a Saudi official bashes Islamists, given that Saudi Arabia is the mother of all political Islam - and even describes itself as an in its " Higher Law.” (We avoid the term "constitution” because of its secular interpretation and often say that the Koran is our constitution.) (Jamal Khashoggi)
We are not opposed to our government and care deeply about Saudi Arabia. It is the only home we know or want. Yet we are the enemy. View quote
Jamal Khashoggi
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia. View quote
Adam McKay
My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats. View quote
Al-Waleed bin Talal
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. View quote
Al-Waleed bin Talal
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. View quote
Al-Waleed bin Talal
You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera. View quote
Al-Waleed bin Talal
The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school. View quote
Basmah bint Saud
On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate. View quote
Basmah bint Saud
If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth. View quote
Basmah bint Saud
When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of carbon sitting under Saudi Arabia in the form of oil, and this carbon powered the Industrial Revolution, it put the 'Great' in Great Britain, and led to Britain's temporary world domination. (David J. C. MacKay)
We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia. View quote
Daniel Yergin
The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy. View quote
Elliott Abrams
I think the real target of al-Qaeda is Saudi Arabia by the way. They hate us and we're a vehicle to get at Saudi Arabia. I think Osama bin Laden really wants to topple that regime and have his people move in, but that's a whole other story. View quote
Frank Carlucci
I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again. View quote
Hannah Simone
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. View quote
James Buchan
I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News. View quote
Leslie Cockburn
I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women. View quote
Lubna Olayan
Saudi men have sisters, mothers, and wives, and in my working experience, I have had tremendous support from Saudi men. I really don't think that Saudi women are oppressed or abused. View quote
Lubna Olayan
Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform. View quote
Michael McCaul
It is no secret that many Islamic movements in the Middle East tend to be authoritarian, and some of the so-called 'Islamic regimes' such as Saudi Arabia, Iran - and the worst case was the Taliban in Afghanistan - they are pretty authoritarian. No doubt about that. (Mustafa Akyol)
Some have said it is the easiest group at the World Cup, but we realize it won't be like that. Germany are a tremendous side, but to be honest I don't know much about Cameroon and Saudi Arabia. View quote
Robbie Keane
Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, who'd always been his father's protege but had never quite lived up to everything that his father had. View quote
Robert Lacey
Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state. View quote
Robert Lacey
I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life. View quote
Robert Lacey