I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

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?

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.

Unfortunately, my love life is nil. I'm working too much - but I would like to settle down at some point.

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'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.