I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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.
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
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.
For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.
I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
I'm not the type of person that is forced.
