Our experience in the Emirates taught us that sometimes the difference between a successful government and a failed one is the number of obstacles it removes from the path of its citizens or places in front of them.

Most of this Arab world has obstacles among obstacles: obstacles facing the student, obstacles facing the businessman, obstacles facing the merchant, obstacles facing the investor, obstacles facing the creator, obstacles facing the woman, and so on.

Most of this Arab world is bottlenecks within bottlenecks: bottlenecks in departments, bottlenecks in airports, bottlenecks in completing transactions, and so on, to the point that one almost thinks that the job of governments is not to remove bottlenecks in order to unleash work, talents, and energies, and not to address routines to reduce the time required to obtain certificates and official papers and allocate What remains is to work, produce and create wealth, but to close every open door and draw the curtain on every energy through which the sun of effectiveness that kills routine penetrates.

If we do not have the ability to build race tracks towards correct development, can we not at least remove obstacles? Then why this abnormal relationship between citizen and employee? Is the citizen at the service of the employee or is the employee at the service of the citizen?

We in the Arab world can give much more than we currently give.

We can create much more than we currently do. We can race and win. We in Dubai are not the geniuses of our time. What we do is what we think is normal and logical in things. But perhaps the difference is that when we say that our real wealth is the sons and daughters of the Emirates, we say that in action and practice.