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.

The problem is that, when places like Saudi Arabia just implement the penal code, and don’t provide the social and economic justice of the Sharia—the whole package—they simply engender hatred toward the Sharia.

Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

I had to smuggle an early Nokia camera cell phone into the country from Bahrain in 2004. There was a large black market for these banned phones, with smugglers hiding them inside car bumpers or car door frames, while customs officials and police used ultrasound devices to ferret them out.)

Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches.