The Monarchy That I Hand Over To

Ten Years Ago I Said, You Know, My Goal Is To Be Able To Get Food On The Table. What I'm Trying To Say By That Is Trying To Create A Vibrant, Capable And Effective Middle Class. The Quicker And Stronger That We Can Be Able To Do This, The Easier It Is For Political Reform To Move Forward.

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 Like To Look At The Glass Half Full.

Jerusalem Is A Time Bomb That I Fear Is Just Waiting To Go Off.

Extremists, Who Thrive On Conflict; Who Do Not Tolerate Diversity; Who Seek Power Through Division And Destruction. The Global System They Hope To Create Is One Of New Walls And New Isolation, And Radically Smaller Horizons. It Is An Anti-democratic, Anti-economic-growth, And Anti-progress Agenda.