black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It’s a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I’m not going to drop the ball on my shift.

Abdullah II

Our response has been, “Well, let’s then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.” That hasn’t happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.
ABDULLAH II

Around Blame Effort Happened Palestinian Response Table
We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
ABDULLAH II

Always Choice Humanity People Right
I’m just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it’s very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
ABDULLAH II

Country Difficult Military Outcome Predict
There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
ABDULLAH II

Change Idea Resistance
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.
ABDULLAH II

Arab Challenge East Economic Happening High Middle Rate Spring Unemployment
We’re never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
ABDULLAH II

Able Evil Rid Terrorism World
I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class.
ABDULLAH II

Class Democracy People Police Pressure Security Success Thinking
At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That’s the only way to defeat terrorism.
ABDULLAH II

Defeat Hope Iraq Stability Terrorism
My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
ABDULLAH II

End never People Use View Violence Well
Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
ABDULLAH II

Ambition Israel Moving Occupation President Prime Minister State Two Violence
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.
ABDULLAH II

Blowing Demolition Home Moving Need Palestinian
We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
ABDULLAH II

Brotherhood Democracy Example People Thinking World
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?
ABDULLAH II

Birthday Creative Issue Mind People Urgent
If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
ABDULLAH II

Democratic Happy Process Something Wrong
The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
ABDULLAH II

Future Hand Jordan Palestinian Security
Is Israel going to continue to be ‘Fortress Israel’? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
ABDULLAH II

Believe Continue Hope Israel Moving Neighborhood

It’s a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I’m not going to drop the ball on my shift.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It’s a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I’m not going to drop the ball on my shift.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Abdullah II Quotes