Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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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 have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work — because if they don’t, they won’t be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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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.
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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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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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Ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children’s?
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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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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.
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Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.
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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.
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That’s the only way to defeat terrorism.
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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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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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