I have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with Israel across the whole spectrum of security issues - intelligence, military, technology.
The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?
Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.
In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.
If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.
How can death become joyous? How can death become happiness? When Al-Hussein asked his nephew Al-Qassem, when he had not yet reached puberty: 'How do you like the taste of death, son?' He answered that it was sweeter than honey. How can the foul taste of death become sweeter than honey? Only through conviction, ideology, and faith, through belief, and devotion. . . We do not want to. . . leave our homeland to Israel. . . Therefore, we are not interested in our own personal security. On the contrary, each of us lives his days and nights hoping more than anything to be killed for the sake of Allah.
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.
My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think.
If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.
I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed.