National Context Quotes

You look at Egypt with American eyes. Democracy in your country has evolved over 200 years. Just give us a chance to develop. If we rush things, countries like ours will collapse.

In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody.

It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.

I think it's important not to start drawing parallels, for example, between Theresa May, a fairly traditional conservative politician, who's now prime minister and Le Pen in France. Those aren't the same and the situation in each country is different.

It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.

In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.

Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.

As a black man who doesn't know another black man who hasn't had strange run-ins with police officers, it's impossible for us not to think about whether that could have been us - based on our country, based on our culture, based on our past experiences.