"What matters is not how affluent a country is but how unequal it is."

"By preaching personal responsibility as a solution, we’re saying “some person—who is not me—should worry about this.” Demanding personal responsibility from somebody else justifies our own irresponsibility. It allows us to ignore the problem."

"There was also one statement on the list that people wanted to talk about more than any other. So much so that towards the end I was saying to people: “Please, let’s not talk about that one, I’ve heard enough already.”

The statement in question was the title from from one of al-Jazeera's Doha Debates and it said: "The family is a major obstacle to reform in the Arab world.""