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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed largely of Islamic militants from Saudi Arabia, the United States countered by invading an unrelated country, and one of the most secular in the Middle East at that.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Country, Military, War

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

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• At last an authentic voice from Saudi Arabia. Al-Mohaimeed has written a remarkable, rhythmic, genuine novel. Wolves of the Crescent Moon throbs with sensuality and moral courage, as if it didn't take place in a society that denies the tick of the heart.

  Hanan al-Shaykh

  Heart, Moon, Voice

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• Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.

  Salman Khurshid

  India, Arabia, Partners

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• Frankly, getting Mexico economically headed in the right direction with good energy policy - Canada, the United States, and Mexico have more known energy reserves than Saudi Arabia and Russia. So developing those and I think you'll see a major movement of people back into Mexico when that occurs when these prices get back. You're going to see a substantial development of the energy business in Mexico and Canada, domestic as well.

  Rick Perry

  Thinking, Russia, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think Saudi Arabia often finances radical Islam and the teaching of hatred to the West and hatred of Americans. I think it is important that we know that. It's important that we know that there is a threat within and a threat without. I think we can stop it with more aggressive use of actual constitutional tools.

  Rand Paul

  Teaching, Thinking, Hatred

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Muslims, who have a completely different value system, come to the West, then they should accept that there are certain basic values in the West intrinsic to our culture. Just as I wouldn't suggest that any Westerner walk down the streets of Saudi Arabia in a bikini.

  John Cleese

  West, Bikinis, Arabia

  "'Satire Makes People Think'". Interview with Christoph Scheuermann and Barbara Supp, www.spiegel.de. March 30, 2015.

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• I don't know why it's so hard to believe women. You to go Saudi Arabia and you need two women to testify against a man. Here you need 25.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Men, Two

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• The efficient use of energy is as much an issue for Saudi Arabia, with its huge natural resources, as it is for all countries. Increased efficiency makes sense environmentally, but also economically.

  Ali al-Naimi

  Country, Business, Issues

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• Saudi Arabia's first female athlete will be allowed to compete while wearing a head scarf. The Saudi woman said she was thrilled about the ruling all she needs now is a man to drive her to the Olympics.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Athlete, Men

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• Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size of cathedrals or even to the words on the statute books for proof of the reality of religious freedom. Ask what is the fate of the Protestant in Spain, the Jew in Saudi Arabia, the Arab in Israel, the Catholic in Poland or the atheist in the United States.

  Paul Blanshard

  Religious, Atheist, Real

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• But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.

  Daniel Yergin

  Oil, Iraq, Keys

  "CNN American Morning with Paula Zahn". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2002.

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• Our relations with brothers in Gulf Cooperation council are good and developing, either bilateral relations or with the G.C.C itself, also we have good brotherly and solid ties with Saudi Arabia.

  Ali Abdullah Saleh

  Brother, Ties, Arabia

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• Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

  Michael Scheuer

  Arabia, Violence, Saudis

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• The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

  Basmah bint Saud

  Girl, Children, School

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• If we had allowed things to drift, everything would have gone from bad to worse. Nasser would have become a kind of Moslem Mussolini, and our friends in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and even Iran would gradually have been brought down. His efforts would have spread westwards, and Libya and North Africa would have been brought under his control.

  Anthony Eden

  Iran, Iraq, Effort

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