Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

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.

We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

I'm easily entertained.

We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.

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.