The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.
I'm proud of what I've done in Jordan, but the region itself is sitting on a time bomb.
I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.
I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.
At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.
Jordan has a very important part in any Arab-Israeli peace process.