When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don’t learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
ABDULLAH IIMr. 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.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction.
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Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
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It’s a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
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We’re never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.
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I’m easily entertained.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
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Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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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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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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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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