Saudis Quotes - Page 6

• The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.

  Anna Wintour

  Taken, Order, America

  "Ashley Tisdale beats Ashlee Simpson by a nose", www.today.com. January 21, 2008.

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• I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.

  Ken Livingstone

  Family, Long, Lamps

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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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• 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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• If Islam opposes terrorism, then Saudi Arabia should announce that no one supportive of ISIS or Al Qaeda is welcome in Mecca to make Hajj.

  Bob Enyart

  Isis, Islam, Supportive

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• If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'

  Vince Gilligan

  Karma, Girlfriend, Hate

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• ...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Rights, Zimbabwe, Groups

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• Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones we’re familiar with under King Abdullah.

  Elliott Abrams

  Strong, Kings, Thinking

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• So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they've stabilized the oil price and that is tremendously important for the economies of the world. I think we have no choice but to work with the government of Saudi Arabia.

  Frank Carlucci

  Thinking, Government, Years

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• The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think they’d have to grant, that as has been said, that the Houthis are an internally generated movement in Yemen and the Saudis were supposed to be dealing with the Houthis, who started out in essence along their border. So one of the things that we’re seeing is a complete failure of Saudi policy toward Yemen over the past 10 years, but the Saudis totally believe that the reason the Houthis are able to succeed militarily is the amount of money, advice, and guns they are receiving from Iran.

  Elliott Abrams

  Believe, Thinking, Gun

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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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• Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn't have oil to the degree that the Saudis do. I think they and other producing states, almost all of whom, except Norway and Canada, are dictatorships or autocratic systems, have thrown their weight around because of oil.

  R. James Woolsey, Jr.

  Thinking, Oil, President

  "Gary Hart, James Woolsey: Oil Tied to Security". Interview with Daniel Stone, www.newsweek.com. August 05, 2010.

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• Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.

  George Tenet

  Two Sides, Iraq, Ties

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• Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor.

  Frank Gaffney

  Country, Play, Organization

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• Email says that no, it is the governments of Saudi and Qatar that have been funding ISIS.

  Julian Assange

  Government, Isis, Qatar

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• Under Hillary Clinton, the world's largest ever arms deal was made with Saudi Arabia, [worth] more than $80 billion.

  Julian Assange

  Arabia, World, Arms

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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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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• The Turks ... the Saudis, the Emiratis, etc. What were they doing?

  Joe Biden

  Etc

  John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Speech, russia-insider.com. October 2, 2014.

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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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• First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Thinking, Firsts, Conflict

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• That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers

  Ed Markey

  Hands, President, Pockets

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• [A conflict of Sunni vs. Shia] is in the mind of the Saudis, and this is in the minds of the Wahabists.
  [The Iranians] actually what they are doing is the opposite. They tried to open channels with the Saudi, with many other Islamic entities in the region in order to talk about Islamic society, not Sunni and Shi'ite societies.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Islamic, Order, Opposites

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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