Sometimes you need other people to embody situations so that you can talk about things that for you are important. And I think that being able to hope for the future is what builds in us the strength to just get rid of things that, in the past, can hurt.

I studied political science at the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris.

I want to serve my country, but not necessarily in the political arena.

In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.

What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.

We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.

Jordan has a very important part in any Arab-Israeli peace process.