Jamal Khashoggi

I really don't like being in jail.

— Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia is the mother and father of political Islam.

— Jamal Khashoggi

The core principle of Wahhabism is anti-diverse.

— Jamal Khashoggi

We should not need to be reminded of the value of human life.

— Jamal Khashoggi

The Iranian state sponsors radicalism.

— Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia is defined and represented by its Islamic stature.

— Jamal Khashoggi

I was a teenager in the 1970s and grew up in Medina, Saudi Arabia.

— Jamal Khashoggi

The Trump administration always says it wants to correct Obama's mistakes. It should add his mishandling of Arab democracy to its list.

— Jamal Khashoggi

The expectation that 'Trump as president' will be starkly different from 'Trump as candidate' is a false hope at best.

— Jamal Khashoggi

The government of Dubai, as much as it is a government, it is a corporation.

— Jamal Khashoggi

I'm worried for a war to break out between Saudi Arabia and Iran, even though I rule it out.

— Jamal Khashoggi

I don't want to be a dissident. But in the same time, I don't want to go back home and be silent…

— Jamal Khashoggi

I began to feel whatever narrow space I had in Saudi Arabia was getting narrower. I thought it would be better to…

— Jamal Khashoggi

The United States would be the only honest broker in the international effort to restore peace and justice for all Syrians.

— Jamal Khashoggi

In the 1970s, the only places on the Arabian Peninsula where women were working outside the home or school were Kuwait and…

— Jamal Khashoggi

It is good that the Canadians are raising the flag among Western countries to raise the issue of human rights abuse throughout…

— Jamal Khashoggi

The death of Yemeni strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh shows that Saudi Arabia is paying for its betrayal of the Arab spring in…

— Jamal Khashoggi

By facilitating a peace agreement and leading the reinvestment and reconstruction in Yemen, Saudi Arabia can turn around a failed state and…

— Jamal Khashoggi

If Mohammed bin Salman wants to deal properly with corruption, he must preserve two elements vital to the Saudi economy: trust in…

— Jamal Khashoggi

The United States should propose partition in Syria. Assad can keep what he controls, and the rebels can form local governments and…

— Jamal Khashoggi

In the event of war, probably Saudi Arabia will facilitate some certain logistics to make the operation easier for the United States,…

— Jamal Khashoggi

The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events. More important,…

— Jamal Khashoggi

The Arab world is facing its own version of an Iron Curtain, imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying…

— Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia has been successful in preventing Houthi missiles from causing substantial damage. Yet, the inability of Saudi authorities in preventing Houthi…

— Jamal Khashoggi

In 2004, Lawrence Wright wrote in the 'New Yorker' about 'The Kingdom of Silence,' where a massive sewer project in Jeddah was…

— Jamal Khashoggi

My publication, 'The Post,' has taken the initiative to translate many of my pieces and publish them in Arabic. For that, I…

— Jamal Khashoggi

Corruption in Saudi Arabia is quite different from corruption in most other countries, as it is not limited to a 'bribe' in…

— Jamal Khashoggi

That is what I want: I want a better Saudi Arabia. I don't see myself as an opposition. I'm not calling for…

— Jamal Khashoggi

I often get attacked in Saudi Arabia, but the critics don't ridicule my ideas. There were about 30 or 40 articles attacking…

— Jamal Khashoggi

I'm 60 years old, and I want to enjoy life, and I want to be free to speak for my country.

— Jamal Khashoggi

When Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen erupted in March 2015, there was widespread Saudi popular support for it - including by me.

— Jamal Khashoggi

Terrorism and the refugee crisis have changed the political mood in the West and brought the extreme right to prominence there.

— Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia must return to fully supporting the Syrian revolution and to ally with the Turks.

— Jamal Khashoggi

To bring about a permanent peace in Syria, the southern part of the country must be protected.

— Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia needs friends. We are in a war in Yemen, in a confrontation with Iran, so we need friends like Canada,…

— Jamal Khashoggi

There can be no political reform and democracy in any Arab country without accepting that political Islam is a part of it.

— Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia has historically attempted to influence politics in Beirut.

— Jamal Khashoggi

I don't want anything to affect my freedom, and we don't want Saudi Arabia to be another Iran.

— Jamal Khashoggi

Criticism of the Middle East should not be directed only at Saudi Arabia. Human rights abuses are happening throughout the Arab world.

— Jamal Khashoggi

It should be a known fact that the Arabs never had a problem with anti-Semitism, but we need to state that over…

— Jamal Khashoggi