Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

I don't lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now, as long as a woman chooses to wear the veil, because that's her belief and because of her own - that's a personal relationship with God, so she should be free to dress in whichever way she wants.

Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.