“There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.” — Abdullah II of Jordan Quote

“There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.”

“What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.”

“I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. 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.”

“There's a real question of what the United States could do if we detain somebody out of Syria right now.”

“I worry a bit about the unknowns when it comes to travelers to the war zones in Syria and Iraq. Who don't I see? And I worry about the people who may be in their basements radicalizing that I can't see.”

“We have a failed state in Syria.”