Quotes by Robert Lacey

“Fill it up today? Before prices go up more?”

“Monarch: The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II.”

“It is pretty clear that people are not enormously enamored by Camilla. People in the future will say that when you compare her style with Dianas, it is very different.”

“his own worst enemy.”

“Its an open secret that Prince Charles was deeply opposed to the war in Iraq and holds very different views on the environment.”

“Nobody hopes that she falls on her face.”

“We have been providing the leading recruitment advertising vehicle in this city since 1999. The level of participation in this event is the result of solid business relationships forged over a period of years. We are proud to be a part of the rebuilding of this great city.”

“Almost from the moment she was born, she has done her duty without flinching and without complaint. Thats one reason there is deep and abiding affection for her.”

Its the love you had that matters, isnt it, not the pain.

In fighting its war, the Ministry of the Interior has resorted to a novel tactic–marriage. No Saudi official will admit on the record that the Kingdom’s terrorist problem might boil down to sexual frustration, but if a social system bans hot-blooded young men from contact with the opposite sex in their most hot-blooded years, perhaps it is hardly surprising that some of them channel this frustration into violence. One cornerstone of the extremist rehab program is to get the “beneficiaries,” as they are called, settled down with a wife as soon as possible. The Ministry of the Interior pays each unmarried beneficiary 60,000 riyals (some $18,000), the going rate for a dowry, or bride price. The family arranges a marriage, and whenever he can, Prince Mohammed turns up for the wedding.When Khaled Al-Hubayshi was released from Al-Haier prison early in 2007, he wasted no time finding himself a bride at government expense.

We try to transform each detainee from a young man who wants to die to a young man who wants to live. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.