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

Abdullah II

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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Challenge Defense Education Health Learning Political Thinking
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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Create Democratic Global Hope Horizon Isolation New Radically Smaller System Wall
I’m not the type of person that is forced.
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Forced Person Type Willingly
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes – a virtuous cycle of change.
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Cycle Event Process Success Successful View Virtuous
I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Afford Middle East Thinking War
The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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Future Hand New Own World Writing
The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place t
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Frustration History Jobs Largest People Unemployment Youth
Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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Imperative Jordan Peace Strategic
I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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Country Energy None Nuclear Peaceful
The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.
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Hand Inherited Monarchy Same Son
I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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Believe Country International Moving Personally Regulation
The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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Break Country Future Giving Incentive Make
You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
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Always Extremist Going Religion
It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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Always Anybody Dangerous Underestimate
There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East.
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Country East Forward Middle Moving Spring
I’ve benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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Benefited Both Culture East Societies West

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