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.

Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.

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

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

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

The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.

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.