At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

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.

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'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.

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.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.