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Abdullah II

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.
ABDULLAH II

Good Life Million Moving New People Position Responsibility
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 II

Lessons War Winning
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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Around Ballot Elected Government Hard Need Next Time Work
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.
ABDULLAH II

Create Democratic Global Hope Horizon Isolation New Radically Smaller System Wall
There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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Change Idea Resistance
I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Afford Middle East Thinking War
Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
ABDULLAH II

Believe Peace Promise Real Share Together World
I’ve benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
ABDULLAH II

Benefited Both Culture East Societies West
I’m just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it’s very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
ABDULLAH II

Country Difficult Military Outcome Predict
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
ABDULLAH II

Better Democracy Eager Hope Need Opportunity People Want
Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
ABDULLAH II

Advantage Always Crisis Situation
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.
ABDULLAH II

Believe Country International Moving Personally Regulation
No matter what’s happening in the Middle East – the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment – the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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Challenge Economic Emotional Issue Rate Spring Unemployment
The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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Future Hand Jordan Palestinian Security
You’re always going to have terrorism.
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Alaways Going Terrorism
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.
ABDULLAH II

Believe Daughter Mother Right Sister Wife Woman

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