Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

Saudi Arabia is a very responsible country. For decades, we used our oil policy as responsible economic tool and isolated it from politics.

A government that doesn't work is in no one's interest.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.