I think understanding or comprehension is probably the strongest emotion that you feel, or at least some kind of empathy.

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

You can have your beliefs, but if you're not devout, you can't quite believe that something which grows out of a story, a book or a piece of literature can rise to dominate and make entire nations go to war with each other. I think that's endlessly fascinating, and it's a human construct. It's something that's constructed to occupy the mind and occupy society, and some people would say to control society.

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.

I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness. I have a whole new appreciation of soldiers. I saw myself on screen and thought, 'That body is so not hard enough to be a soldier.'

You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.

I love being grungy and dirty.