All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles - someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals and knowledge of a hundred previous generations. Loved ones who will pass to the next generation their expectations of them, their hopes, and their dreams.

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.

Time is passing, ... We have to look at the reality of the situation and ... redouble our efforts and get on with it.

I don't know who all of his advisers are, but I've seen some of the names and some of them are quite far to the right. And sometimes they might be in a position to make judgments or recommendations to the candidate that should get a second thought.

Decision-making is lonely.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

You can't get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.