In the News Quotes Archive - Page 22 of 36

The Guardian,

March 29, 2020

“[The Saudi government is] surveilling not only those they know are dissidents, but those they fear may deviate from the Saudi leadership. They are particularly worried about what Saudi nationals will do when they are in western countries.”

VOA News,

March 27, 2020

“The international community should be applying pressure on Saudi Arabia to release imprisoned political dissidents, especially women’s rights activists who were arrested for advocating for measures the kingdom has since implemented.”

NBC,

February 25, 2020

“Mubarak…did bring a certain measure of political stability to Egypt. But the price that was paid for that stability was atrophy and deterioration of the political institutions, of the economy, of socio-economic conditions.”

New York Times,

February 25, 2020

“Mubarak is gone, but 100 million Egyptians still live in his Egypt. Sisi is worse than Mubarak in many ways, but without Mubarak there is no Sisi. That is Mubarak’s legacy.”

Al-Monitor,

February 11, 2020

“When FMF loans were…more common…the preponderance of countries ended up defaulting, in which case the US was responsible for the loans… So we ended up paying it anyway, but it still did damage to the creditworthiness of those countries.”

BBC,

January 22, 2020

“It’s very unlikely that [Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman] unwittingly used [the Pegasus cyber-hacking] software for which he was responsible. It just strains credulity to suggest that he wasn’t aware.”

CBS,

January 22, 2020

“MBS’s personal role in potentially compromising Jeff Bezos…was a clear attempt to blackmail Bezos into changing Washington Post coverage and relieving scrutiny on Mohammad bin Salman’s reckless actions.”

Ahval,

November 28, 2019

“While I think the municipal elections quite rightly demonstrate a continued desire for democracy in Turkey—[nd that] remains true across a very wide spectrum of the Turkish population—I don’t think that necessarily translates into actual democracy.”

The Hill,

November 24, 2019

“[T]he mere fact that this debate is occurring about Saudi Arabia during the Democratic primary and that you have candidates…criticizing them so directly is a real sign of the underlying problem for the kingdom and for Mohammed bin Salman.”

BBC,

November 24, 2019

“[I]t is likely very disconcerting for President al-Sisi and his inner circle that people inside his regime are leaking important information to such a credible and well-respected site as Mada Masr.”

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