If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

By being friends with all, we are not alone.

If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.

History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

Bahrain is very dear to me.

Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the uninterrupted export of crude oil from the Gulf to markets around the world - a job that historically has been assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet.

Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.

Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.

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

I don't order laws, I propose them.

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.

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

Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.

Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.

Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.

Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.

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.

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

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

We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.

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.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.