"The Treasury Department would use the interest from……" — John Perkins
"The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new infrastructure - which we've done."
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21 Quotes by John Perkins
John Perkins has 21 quotes on this site.
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I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.
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The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are
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The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less…
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No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken…
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I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these -…
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But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what…
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Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.
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I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money,…
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These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and…
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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating,…
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When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out…
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And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein…
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More Arabia Quotes
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If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps…
— John Bolton
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It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the…
— Barbara Boxer
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The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization…
— Barbara Boxer
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Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control…
— James Buchan
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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
— James Buchan
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The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia…
— James Buchan
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I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!
— William Shakespeare
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Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all…
— John William Draper
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It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how…
— Annie Besant
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I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the…
— Samuel Marinus Zwemer
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