The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
ABDULLAH IIIn 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.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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I believe strongly in the rights of women… my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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I’ve benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children’s children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.
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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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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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When there’s a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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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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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class.
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Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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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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