If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

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 extremists in every religion.

I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.

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.

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.