Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Powell

We are not shrinking from talking to Saudis or anyone else in the region, but it is up to each nation in the region to decide on its own how it will proceed and at what pace. There are other nations in the region that had similar policies to Saudi Arabia that are starting to make changes, such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Morocco. And so it takes time but when you see the need for such changes, then changes tend to follow.

Colin Powell

Bahrain is moving at one pace, Morocco another, Qatar at another, Kuwait at yet another. And we are there to assist our friends.

Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

Qatar is giving 2.8% of our GDP to research. This is something again that is a breakthrough, as nobody was even thinking of research as a tool or component for advancement in this part of the world.

Rudy Giuliani

More trade with Qatar & emirates is good against terrorism.

Rudy Giuliani

Did business with Qatar, a US ally which protects al-Qaeda.

Nick Turse

Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.

Rand Paul

We shouldn't have a program where we just say that we're going to take care of the world's refugees. Nobody in the Middle East is doing anything. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait - all the Gulf nations are doing nothing.

Frank Carlucci

Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.

Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.

Al Jarreau

Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, "When is Al coming back?" .

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran.

Charles Mingus

Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]

Kurt Vonnegut

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.

Catherine Deneuve

I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.

Bill O'Reilly

The chief al Qaeda recruiting tool is the net.

Janet Napolitano

It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs.

Charlie Watts

To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.

Chris Christie

When the president of the United States says he's going to do something, he needs to do it. That makes not only our adversaries more emboldened. It makes our allies more nervous.

Chinua Achebe

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

Carl Pope

We applaud those in Congress who have refused to let drilling proponents manipulate them and the democratic process. Although there are some still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, the drilling lobby and their allies will be hard-pressed to keep Arctic drilling in the budget knowing that it is dead on arrival in the House.

Bertolt Brecht

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

Ben Stein

Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.

Elliott Abrams

The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al Qaeda-linked groups. U.S. relations with traditional allies in the Gulf, Jordan, Israel and Egypt were very good. Iran was contained, its Revolutionary Guard forces at home.

Charles Krauthammer

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

Darren Shan

Indecision is the source of chaos." - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night)

David Shields

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.