We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
ABDULLAH IIThe Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it’s two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it’s a good thing.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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It’s a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I’m not going to drop the ball on my shift.
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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’ve benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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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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I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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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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I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
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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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And 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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I’m easily entertained.
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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