我相信这一代的孩子已经随着生活的安逸而腐朽了，巨大的财富剥夺了他们的任何野心和真正的满足。毫无疑问，我们沙特阿拉伯君主制的弱点与我们对铺张浪费的嗜好密切相关。我担心这会毁掉我们。
(I believe that the children of this generation have decayed with the ease of their lives, and that their great fortune has deprived them of any ambitions or real satisfactions. Surely the weakness of our monarchy in Saudi Arabia is bound up in our addiction to extravagance. I fear it will be our undoing.)