If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
You're always going to have terrorism.
I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
I'm not the type of person that is forced.
Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?
When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
I'm easily entertained.
