Mohammad bin Salman

“We are a G20 country. One of the biggest world economies. We're in the middle of three continents. Changing Saudi Arabia for the better means helping the region and changing the world. So this is what we are trying to do here. And we hope we get support from everyone.”

“The suspension of allowances was temporary and was to be reviewed periodically. It was reviewed in the appropriate time after our oil revenue improved.”

“We represent the moderate teachings and principles of Islam.”

“The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity, you create business, you create development, you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.”

“There are going to be no income taxes and no wealth taxes.”

“It's not Neom's duty to create jobs for Saudis. Neom's duty is to be a world hub for everyone in the whole world.”

“The idea is not to restructure the economy as much as to seize the opportunities available that we didn't address before.”

“If Saudi Aramco is listed, then it must announce its statements, and it will do that every quarter. It will be under the supervision of all Saudi banks, all analysts, all Saudi thinkers. Even more, all international banks and research and planning centres in the world will monitor it intensively.”

“We want to reach free energy markets, but with subsidy programmes for those with low income, and not to have the subsidy in the form of lowering the energy prices, but through other programmes.”

“The first robot in Neom will be Neom itself.”

“I have all points of strength, and I have the opportunities to increase our non-oil revenues in many sectors, and I have a global economic network.”

“Iran believes that before Imam Mahdi reappears, it must prepare a fertile ground for him and that it must control the Muslim world.”

“We believe women have rights in Islam that they've yet to obtain.”

“My father saw that there is no way we can stay in the G-20 and grow with this level of corruption. In early 2015, one of his first orders to his team was to collect all the information about corruption - at the top. This team worked for two years until they collected the most accurate information, and then they came up with about 200 names.”

“All we're doing is going back to what we were: a moderate Islam that is open to all religions and to the world and to all traditions and people.”

“It's only by coincidence I started working with my father - all because of King Abdullah's decision not to grant my promotion. God bless his soul, he did me a favor.”

“By 2020, we'll be able to live without oil.”

“We have been influenced by you in the U.S. a lot. Not because anybody exerted pressure on us - if anyone puts pressure on us, we go the other way. But if you put a movie in the cinema and I watch it, I will be influenced.”

“People used to be unhappy that files and data of Aramco are undeclared, unclear, and not transparent.”

“Iran's goal is to gain control of the Two Holy Mosques.”