The army needs to be neutralized, and the best way for doing this is to make sure that certain top figures and second-tier commanders are unwilling to cooperate with the regime should it opt to crackdown.

Ammar Abdulhamid

Related Quotes

This does not produce the kind of people who can speak their mind about issues.

— Ammar Abdulhamid

Even when students graduate from universities, they are not able to fill the intellectual positions that need to be filled. They are not capable of generating new ideas.

— Ammar Abdulhamid

All countries embraced some kind of change. So many parts of the world understood that this is a new world order, except the Arab world.

— Ammar Abdulhamid

It's a very, very lengthy process. We have a little over 500 members today, but out of the 500, we only pick four.

The private sector can turn it around a lot quicker.