The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.
ABDULLAH IIThe incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what’s going on.
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I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.
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The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.
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And no matter what’s happening in the Middle East – the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment – the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don’t know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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I think it’s almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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I’m easily entertained.
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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class.
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Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.
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The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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When there’s a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
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There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East.
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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.
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Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings,
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If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
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When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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