“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.”

Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it’s about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

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.

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it’s two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it’s a good thing.

We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children’s children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.

I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

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

It’s a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

Ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children’s?

The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.

Earth’s dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

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

The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!

I am an avid believer that education – and especially early childhood development – is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.

The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.

Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?

The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

The Government’s first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust.