The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Politics is different, because the mission is always to get the necessary votes. A good politician goes through everything in terms of mission and vision, and resourcing, but at the end of the day politicians have to make compromises in order to achieve consensus.

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's going to get it done.

War is never a happy solution, but it may be the only solution. We must exhaustively explore other possible solutions before we make the choice for war. Every political and diplomatic effort should be made to avoid war while achieving your objective.

Saudi Arabia will have to decide its own path, and I don't know if it will decide a path like any other nation in the region or if it will design something that is unique to Saudi Arabia.

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.