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I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. -- James Buchan
I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington. -- Lindsey Graham
But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. -- Dave Eggers
I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all. -- James Lovelock
If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth. -- Basmah bint Saud
You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America. -- Stephen Kinzer
Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society. -- Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
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
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
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
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
Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but none has as long a history of war, resistance, and terror as Chechnya. -- Stephen Kinzer
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
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
I would like to find a way in which people in Saudi Arabia could learn that they can be something other than a Muslim. Some people may not realize this. Of course, there is the problem that you can get in trouble or get stoned. -- Richard Dawkins
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. -- Adam McKay
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
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region. -- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal. -- Charles Duhigg
Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism, -- Julian Assange
India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century. -- Rahul Gandhi
15 of the 19 [September 11th] hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. -- Michael Moore
Bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy. -- Newt Gingrich
Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners. -- Salman Khurshid
We need to find three Saudi Arabias just to offset [the] decline. -- Matthew Simmons
We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman, -- Manal al-Sharif
Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself. -- Michael Scheuer
You know, in Saudi Arabia, you're innocent until proven Jewish. Female. Guilty! They're guilty! -- Jon Stewart
I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News. -- Leslie Cockburn
Donald Trump's idea that more nations should get nuclear weapons. Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea. -- Tim Kaine
America cannot afford to defend Saudi Arabia, Japan, Germany, South Korea, and many other places. -- Donald Trump
India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources -- Rahul Gandhi
Even the U.S. government agrees that some Saudi figures have been supporting ISIL, or ISIS. -- Julian Assange
Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches. -- Nicholas Kristof
I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. -- Sibel Edmonds
It's important to reach out to moderate Arab nations, like Jordan and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. -- George W. Bush
The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia. -- Frank Carlucci
Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more. -- Michael T. Flynn
Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state. -- Robert Lacey
Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. -- Patricia Richardson
Email says that no, it is the governments of Saudi and Qatar that have been funding ISIS. -- Julian Assange
We're a country that owes $20 trillion. They [Japan, Germany, South Korea, Saudi Arabia] have to help us out. -- Donald Trump
The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt. -- Barack Obama
Under Hillary Clinton, the world's largest ever arms deal was made with Saudi Arabia, [worth] more than $80 billion. -- Julian Assange
Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran. -- Adel al-Jubeir
I've been to Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait for brief visits at conferences, and they are very interesting countries. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots. -- Alex Berenson
We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States. -- Jay Inslee
Saudi Arabia has lost one of its dutiful sons, a leader among the most dear of its leaders and men. -- Hosni Mubarak
I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City. -- Dave Eggers
I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts. -- Ken Livingstone
Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan. -- Thomas Friedman
Daesh is attacking us. Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, wants to destroy the Saudi state. These people are criminals. They're psychopaths. -- Adel al-Jubeir
I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women. -- Lubna Olayan
The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity. -- Barbara Boxer
Saudi women like makeup. And I'm OK with that. If that's what you want to make you feel good, go for it. -- Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud
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
Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war. -- Noam Chomsky
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
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
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
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
Japan, Germany, South Korea, these are very rich, powerful countries. Saudi Arabia, nothing but money. We Americans protect Saudi Arabia. Why aren't they paying? -- Donald Trump
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
We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this. -- Adel al-Jubeir
You have to be able to negotiate our trade deals. You have to be able to negotiate, that's right, with Japan, with Saudi Arabia. -- Donald Trump
The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy. -- Elliott Abrams
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
Additionally, I will be respectfully asking countries, such as Germany, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, to pay more for the tremendous security we provide them. -- Donald Trump
Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right at this moment. -- Hillary Clinton
...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
Russia will always remember the contribution [of King Fahd] in the development of Russian-Saudi relations, which in recent years were raised to a qualitatively higher level. -- Vladimir Putin
Non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia can only celebrate Valentine's Day behind closed doors. Apparently, this has led to a huge black market for flowers and wrapping paper. -- John Niven
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
In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason: oil. -- Michael Mandelbaum
I think it's very sad, when Barack Obama lands in Saudi Arabia, and he lands in Cuba, and there aren't high officials to even greet him. -- Donald Trump
Doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions? -- Martin Amis
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. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they're thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis. -- Bashar al-Assad
There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise. -- Dave Eggers
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. -- Basmah bint Saud
They [ Germany, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia] will fully understand. They're economic behemoths. They're tremendously successful countries, but we're subsidizing them for billions and billions of dollars. -- Donald Trump
Yay Condi Rice. I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be 'I'll drive.' -- James Lileks
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, -- Basmah bint Saud
We need more American energy. It keeps wealth at home. It keeps our wealth from ending up in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. It creates jobs at home. -- Jeff Sessions
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
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
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. -- Michael McCaul
The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new infrastructure - which we've done. -- John Perkins
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
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
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
Saudi Arabian police arrested seven teenage boys for leering at women. In accordance with Saudi law, the boys will be whipped and the women will be stoned to death. -- Tina Fey
The U.S. government is selling $30 billion worth of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Yeah, it's part of a new initiative called, 'Operation Regret This In Five Years.' -- Jimmy Fallon
People are saying, "Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed." It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role? -- Adel al-Jubeir
I think we can make a contribution to their [Saudi Arabia] thinking as they decide how they should deal with the economic and social challenges that they are facing. -- Colin Powell
I am warning my people, but I'm also warning Iran, and warning Saudi Arabia, and warning China and Russia and Europe. We are at the end of this world. -- Louis Farrakhan
In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The Koran is not a rights-respecting document. -- Ibn Warraq
The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world--Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon--there are more Muhammads than anything else. -- Muhammad Ali
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
The King had been a good friend of the government and the people of South Africa and we all mourn his passing with our brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia. -- Thabo Mbeki
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. -- Lubna Olayan
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I want to give a shout-out to all my Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters. If you could all please send me some oil for my jet, I would truly appreciate it. -- Puff Daddy
Who on earth do the Americans suppose their allies are amongst the Arab world? Even Saudi Arabia they seem to regard as nothing more than a resevoir of oil and money. -- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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
We liberate our nation's heart inside of Indonesian independence!! Ibn Saud liberated Arabian's heart inside of Saudi Arabian independence one by one!! Stalin liberated Soviet-Russian's heart inside of Soviet one by one!! -- Sukarno
I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston. -- Taiye Selasi
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
There are different opinions across the Middle East of Al-Jazeera. They've been kicked out of Egypt and Jordan and then let back in; they've been totally banned from Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria. -- Jehane Noujaim
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. -- Daniel Yergin
Fuel-efficient my big engine is not. I drove 38 miles and burned through more than a quarter-tank of expensive premium gas. Every time I accelerated I could sense a Saudi Arabian somewhere was smiling. -- C.D. Payne
Weapons systems the U.S. sold to the Shah of Iran wound up in the hands of Islamic militants who seized power there in 1979; a comparable scenario in Saudi Arabia is hardly impossible. -- Stephen Kinzer
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
Very few people are fortunate enough to walk through countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, and I had seen them all. I had spoken to many on the street. -- Ashleigh Banfield
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
American special relationships with Israel and Saudi Arabia blind us to their dreadful encroachments on human rights, as well as confer impunity on their leaders with respect to accountability for crimes against humanity. -- Richard A. Falk
At the end of the day, bin Laden's interest is not Washington and New York, it's the Middle East. He wants Saudi Arabia. He wants to get rid of the House of Saud. -- Robert Fisk

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