The Kingdom Quotes

Adam Leavitt: Sir, not to beat a dead horse, but if there was ever a time for us to put boots on Saudi sand, I mean, don't you think this is it?
Janet Mayes: There's no way, Adam. They will never allow it.
Adam Leavitt: Then let's just ask.
Janet Mayes: The Saudi Royal Family cannot appear as if they're losing

control. If they lose control of their country, lose control of the people, they risk losing control of the oil. And that's not going to happen.

Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: Look at me, Haytham. You saved lives today. I have no doubt about that.
Sergeant Haytham: I love my country.
Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: I know.
Sergeant Haytham: Never in my life, never have I thought to betray my country.
Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: Believe me, I know.

That's why I want you to use all your energy, anger, and frustration as a tool to drive us to capture those criminals and bring them to justice.

Prince Ahmed Bin Khaled: Four FBI agents will be allowed to land at Prince Sultan Air Base this evening. General Abdulmalik, Chief of Investigative Services for the National Guard, has been put in charge of solving this crime.
Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: Your Highness. I know General Abdulmalik. I attend his interrogation of one of my men. The General does not

have investigative experience.
Prince Ahmed Bin Khaled: The attackers wore police uniforms. Your uniforms. Some of your men may have been involved with this cell. May still be involved. Al Ghazi, consider yourself lucky even to have a role at all. The Americans are our guests for five days. Take extremely good care of them and I want them to leave as safe as they arrived.

Understood?
Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: Yes, Your Highness.

Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: You cannot touch evidence. Please leave it. You cannot question anyone without me present, touch a dead Muslim, or leave my sight at any time. Your safety is my primary concern.
Ronald Fleury: I thought your primary concern would be the investigation.
Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: And you would be mistaken.

Grant Sykes: I think this is one of those something happens to us, his head comes off kind of deals. You're our babysitter, right?
Adam Leavitt: We call that a babysitter.

Ronald Fleury: I just need to ask your boys some questions about maybe somthing that they saw the other night.
Aaron Jackson: What do you want to ask my boys about the other night? What do you want to ask them about? You want to ask them about watching their mother bleed to death? Is that what you want to ask my boys? My five year old boy, when I got home,

had a box of band-aids and he was trying to put his mama's mouth back on.

Ronald Fleury: This is too pretty of a plan to be hatched in just one day. He had to come here a couple of times.
Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: This man is a Saudi. See, if foreigners were here, someone would say something.
Ronald Fleury: So maybe Abu Hamza?
Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: Could be.
Ronald

Fleury: Yeah. Then we should ask around. Get out of here and some people...
Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: [interrupting] They won't tell you anything.
Ronald Fleury: Why not?
Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: He's like Robin Hood to you. People feel sympathy to him.

Adam Leavitt: How many princes are there?
Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: Over five thousand.
Ronald Fleury: Does every prince get a palace this big?
Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: Some get bigger.
Adam Leavitt: And who pays for all this?
Grant Sykes: Exxon. Chevron. Shell.

Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: I want to take you somewhere.
Ronald Fleury: Where?
Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: Someone who can lead us to catch the big dog.
Ronald Fleury: More like big fish.
Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: Big fish?
Ronald Fleury: Yeah, big fish.

Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: A dog, uh... a dog's more bigger than a fish.

Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: I'm forty-two years old. I have two daughters and a son. Beautiful son. And I find myself in a place where I no longer care about why we are attacked. I only care that one hundred people woke up a few mornings ago, and had no idea it was their last. When we catch the man who murdered these people, I don't care to ask even one question. I want to kill him.

Do you understand?
Ronald Fleury: Yes, I do.