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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

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ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they...
FRANK CARLUCCI If they come up with strong announcements about the agreed cuts it could easily see $1 to $1.50 adde...
JOSEPH STANISLAW He could have gone back to Saudi Arabia, but he's a madman, he wanted to prove that he's the hero.
MUSTAFA MAHMOUD Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American we...
STEPHEN KINZER The Western oil companies have really been kept out of Saudi Arabia for many, many years, and I thin...
ARCHIE DUNHAM We were all sitting in the most oil-rich country in the world, and even when people could get gas, i...
JOHN CRAWFORD You might have thought in this price environment [$60-a-barrel oil] that you might have got a bonus,...
WILF GOBERT The latest security threats in Saudi Arabia, even though they're not directed at oil installations p...
MARSHALL STEEVES And is Saudi Arabia a democracy, or Kuwait?
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL Saudi Arabia is, of course, the keystone of OPEC. Saudi Arabia has had the distinction of remaining ...
JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER I saw a report yesterday. There's so much oil, all over the world, they don't know where to ...
DONALD TRUMP If Saudi Arabia decides to disrupt the global economy, we'll still feel it, even if we're not buying...
KAREN WAYLAND a declaration of war against Saudi Arabia.
PRINCE ABDULLAH The wind resource in the United States is comparable to the oil resource in Saudi Arabia. It's a maj...
TOM GRAY I think the real target of al-Qaeda is Saudi Arabia by the way. They hate us and we're a vehicle...
FRANK CARLUCCI Actually, our current military presence in Saudi Arabia could be described as more than merely symbo...
GENJOHN ABIZAID My client believed he was a Yemeni working in Saudi Arabia.
JASON BURNETT Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day.
DONALD TRUMP It's certainly interesting that again his daughter's working for ultimately oil interests. That's wh...
BILL ALLISON It makes no sense to tax ethanol coming in from friendly countries like Brazil when we do not tax oi...
GAL LUFT But Saudi Arabia and Kuwait offer, I think, the best opportunities in the gas sector.
ARCHIE DUNHAM This innovative research program could lead to breakthroughs to significantly reduce our nation's de...
ANNE STEVENS But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself ...
DANIEL YERGIN We can no longer allow America’s dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Inst...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY that touch internally within Saudi Arabia.
EVAN BAYH Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremis...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
JAMES BUCHAN We've been very satisfied and continue to be satisfied with our cooperation with Saudi Arabia with t...
PHIL REEKER The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, bo...
BASMAH BINT SAUD There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a tru...
EVAN OSNOS I am from the oil industry and remember when the price was $US10 (a barrel) in 1999 and everyone was...
ANDREW BLAKELY But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defi...
DAVE EGGERS Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the ...
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NAWAF OBAID You know, oil prices from 2007, on the strength of a very robust global economy and a very robust em...
REX TILLERSON This less-is-more phenomenon holds true not only for individuals but for entire nations. A good exam...
ERIC WEINER It would still be bearable, as long as private ownership dominates and gives a competitive push to t...
VALERY NESTEROV We had a positive lead from Wall Street. Oil prices were up again.
ERIC BETTS India considers Saudi Arabia a center of stability in the region. The security and stability of the ...
SALMAN KHURSHID You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the successio...
AL-WALEED BIN TALAL I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, ...
HANNAH SIMONE If we had 70.0 dollars per barrel on oil prices in the midst of a recession, I would be very worried...
JULIAN JESSOP Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Europe has shrugged (high oil prices) off pretty well but I think we will see $70 a barrel and that ...
DANIEL BIRCH Great entrepreneurs from Saudi Arabia are interested in helping promote the Arab language.
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ROLAND AVANTE Saudi Arabia is taking a Chinese wife. The Saudis are not divorcing us. In Islam, you can have more ...
CHAS FREEMAN Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by bannin...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF We're really not going to change our consumption behavior until oil hits $80 a barrel.
DALTON GARIS Right now, [our] leading indicators clearly show that the U.S. economy is in a window of vulnerabili...
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BK GUPTA Their systems could be so disrupted that they can't go on with business. They can't export, they can...
EDWARD YARDENI There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to...
T. BOONE PICKENS There has been a rising floor underneath oil prices, ... Last year we were worried about $40 a barre...
JAN STUART I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic C...
DAVE EGGERS Do the Americans want democracy in the Middle East? Do the Americans want the oil wells of Iraq and ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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JACQUES ROUSSEAU The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia&...
BARBARA BOXER The move up in crude oil price from $12 a barrel to nearly $31 a barrel has been really positive for...
CRAIG CALLAHAN I don't have any specific concerns about Saudi Arabia at this time.
GUY CARUSO The fear of a replication of that is going to keep the market on its toes and we could easily test $...
MARSHALL STEEVES We don't want him to go back to Saudi Arabia. We believe he is under a death sentence right now.
FRANCIS CARTER Saudi Arabia condemns the brutal assaults inflicted on Palestinian citizens in Jerusalem by Israeli ...
SAUDI ARABIA In effect, Saudi Arabia legitimizes fundamentalism, religious discrimination, intolerance and the op...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn'...
JAMES WOOLSEY Saudi Arabia has lost one of its dutiful sons, a leader among the most dear of its leaders and men,
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JAY INSLEE With oil at above US$67 per barrel, this is likely to once again raise investors' concern over the i...
CARMEN LEE I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.
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KEITH HENSON Oil below $60 a barrel grabbed folks' attention.
BOB SITKO We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big expor...
STEPHEN HARPER It appears that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is making a genuine effort to reform its economy and ad...
ROB PORTMAN I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I w...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI Ultimately, the government might have been disposed to ignore the popular protests, but what they de...
FERNANDO ROSPIGLIOSI We have strayed from a rational (oil) market equilibrium and it is our duty to reset this market's r...
LAURENT FABIUS You have an entirely different industry with oil below $50 a barrel and with oil above $60.
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JAMES APPATHURAI It's all about perception. Just the idea of an attack in Saudi Arabia is enough to make the market j...
GLENN MURRAY Any action that the United Nations takes in that, including freezing assets, will be undertaken by S...
PRINCE SAUD What they have said is that if the other OPEC countries can't increase output proportionately [with ...
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ABI ABDULLAH Yesterday we were down because of Saudi Arabia. In the past few days we have seen the fate of market...
HANY HUSSEIN Can you get a democracy in Saudi Arabia? These people talk about theocracy, not democracy. So I thin...
LEON CHARNEY I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we li...
HANNAH SIMONE The increased production being touted by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait is not going to be enough to dent t...
ADRIAN SCHMIDT I'm struck, ... Originally I thought that in a recession we could get below 5 percent, but we're not...
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ANDREW NIKIFORUK I never saw a bureaucracy produce a single barrel of oil.
REX TILLERSON King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz has chosen Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz as Crown prince in accordance w...
SAUDI ARABIA an election ploy requested by Al Gore.
SAUDI ARABIA The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia categorically rejects such terrorist acts that target the lives of innoc...
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