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1. "Saudis of all sorts recent having to beg princes for favors to secure services that should be a public right" ~ Karen Elliott House
2. "What unites conservatives and modernizers and young and old, is a hunger not for freedom but for justice; for genuine rule of law, not rule by royal whim. They want a government that is a transparent and accountable, one that provides standards services such as are available in far less wealthy societies: good education, job, affordable housing , and decent health care." ~ Karen Elliott House
3. "Beyond that, many Saudi citizens want a more open society, still devoutly Islamic but free of some of the restraints imposed by religious fundamentalists and absent the daily harassment of the religious police." ~ Karen Elliott House
4. "His U.S. interrogators wanted to know why he and others turned to terrorism. "If you are someone with no job, no family, and you find someone who says ‘I have the way,' it is easy to follow," he says, though he had both a job and a family. (Saudis often fail to see the obvious contradictions in their conversations.)" ~ Karen Elliott House
5. "The country is rich but weak. It owns massive amounts of modern military equipment but has almost no military might." ~ Karen Elliott House
6. "On the other hand, he continues, "splitting off the Eastern Province, with its large Shiite population, might be doable." ~ Karen Elliott House
7. "(The extended royal family, including progeny of Abdul Aziz's siblings, is said to include roughly thirty thousand members.)" ~ Karen Elliott House
8. "Visiting one of these tenements, where the stairs are littered with broken glass and stained with spilled liquids and urine, conjures up Calcutta, not Jeddah, the kingdom's most urbane city." ~ Karen Elliott House
9. "It is wishful thinking that an anti-extremism campaign will work when this country was founded on puritanical Islam. We have to grow out of this, like England had to grow out of the Church of England with an archbishop who could veto whatever he opposed." ~ Karen Elliott House
10. "Over the next thirty to fifty years," he says, "Islam will challenge democracy as a way to live and practice human rights." ~ Karen Elliott House
11. "The only way to combat extremist ideas of religion is for government to teach the right religion." ~ Karen Elliott House
12. "The Al Saud believe they have an asset more powerful than the ballot box: they have Allah." ~ Karen Elliott House
13. "Invading a country is easier than changing educational curriculum," the late Ghazi al Gosaibi, a confidant of King Abdullah," ~ Karen Elliott House
14. "If the ruler is ruling by Islam, even if he got there illegally, he must be obeyed." ~ Karen Elliott House
15. "Prince Faisal bin Abdullah, minister of education and King Abdullah's son-in-law, adds, "The king's message is that oil is not our first wealth. Education is. We have to develop the people now." ~ Karen Elliott House
16. "Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah bin Baz, a blind religious scholar who believed the earth was flat because that was how it felt under his feet." ~ Karen Elliott House
17. "With this latest largesse, public expenditures have tripled since 2004, while the private sector's contribution to non-oil GDP has stagnated." ~ Karen Elliott House
18. "Tellingly, the entire subject of philosophy, in which questions would be the core of a curriculum, is banned in Saudi." ~ Karen Elliott House

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