corpus · 101 on file

Quotes

Every verified statement attributed to a politician or party in the dataset. Each carries a year, the context, and at least one source citation. The same corpus drives the Who-said-it game and the "On the record" sections on entity pages.

  • Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt, if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we would follow suit as soon as possible.
    SA flag Mohammed bin Salman · 2018 A 60 Minutes interview with Norah O'Donnell, aired 19 Mar 2018, ahead of a first official US visit as Crown Prince — on the Saudi response to Iran's nuclear program. Sources: cbsnews.com Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
  • I believe the Iranian supreme leader makes Hitler look good.
    SA flag Mohammed bin Salman · 2018 An April 2018 interview drawing a maximalist historical analogy for the rivalry with Tehran, during a high-profile tour of the United States. Sources: theatlantic.com Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■□□□
  • What happened in the last 30 years is not Saudi Arabia. What happened in the region in the last 30 years is not the Middle East. After the Iranian revolution in 1979, people wanted to copy this model in different countries.
    SA flag Mohammed bin Salman · 2018 April 2018 interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic — the most-cited framing of the modernisation thesis underlying Vision 2030. Sources: theatlantic.com · en.wikipedia.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
  • If Iran develops a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible.
  • We are returning to what we were before — a country of moderate Islam open to all religions and to the world.
    SA flag Mohammed bin Salman · 2017 2017 Future Investment Initiative ("Davos in the desert") in Riyadh — the speech that introduced Vision 2030 to a global investor audience. Sources: theguardian.com · en.wikipedia.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□

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