If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
ABDULLAH IIWhen 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.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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Earth’s dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual 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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And it’s about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you’re appointed by the king, they don’t feel that they’re responsible for the people.
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I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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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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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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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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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.
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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.
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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.
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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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The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. … There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king.
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