Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, interview with Anne McGinn of the Network Pool, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, February 16, 2010:
“[I]in today’s world, there is increasingly little difference between inside and outside. Everything is instantaneous. The words you say go around the world with the flick of a keyboard. So I think that it is a place to raise it, because clearly, it is in this region that people are most concerned about what the effects on their security will be by a nuclear-armed Iran with the missiles that could reach their territory. … Now, understandably, if you are a neighbor of Iran, if you have had previous problems with Iran, if you believe Iran has actually funded terrorist attacks inside your country, as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia believes, you are going to be very impatient. ‘Let’s get on with it. Let’s see what we can do here. Let’s try to change their decisions.’ But we are very much on the same page as the Saudis are about trying to, you know, alter the course of Iran’s decision-making.”
