"When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins."

"The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis."

"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."

"If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."

"Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless."

"History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful."