What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
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.
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.
Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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.
I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?
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 terrorism.
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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