Quotes About Bahrain

#1. May Allah guide us to the good of the kingdom of Bahrain and its loyal people.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#2. Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#3. There is no doubt that some in Iran have an unhealthy focus on Bahrain, as some of the broadcast coverage shows.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#4. Bahrain is very dear to me.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#5. It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain.

Elliott Abrams

#6. The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#7. I was in Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Bahrain. The first year I went pretty much by myself. Then I went with General [Richard] Myers, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The shows and audiences were amazing. You'll never get a better group of people.

Robin Williams

#8. We invite American companies looking to raise capital to list on the Bahrain Stock Exchange. The region has a liquidity oversupply approximating $1 trillion and this pool of capital can be tapped into by creative American companies. The next Facebook may very well get funded on the BSE.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#9. The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#10. There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#11. I care about Bahrain.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#12. I remember when I was in the Middle East, Yasser Arafat used to go to Bahrain and Qatar on a Thursday and then go to Saudi Arabia and get his financial help on a Saturday.

Leon Charney

#13. There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#14. The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#15. 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.

Frank Carlucci

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

Colin Powell

#17. In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#18. I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#19. Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#20. Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands.

Elliott Abrams

#21. Christmas is a good time to take stock of our blessings.

Pat Boone

#22. When I was a child ... Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

Bertrand Russell

#23. Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang;
Ye were not made to live like unto brutes,
But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

#24. I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

Rachel Platten

#25. There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power ... on the contrary, they must be given less power.

Benjamin Constant

#26. The wisps of her crisp dark hair blew about her as she stooped, her eyes were big and wide and dark, when she looked up again, strange, startled, shy and sardonic at once.

D.H. Lawrence