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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.