"For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with."

"Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan."

"Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony."

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

"We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out."

"I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really."

"Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!"

"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed."