The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
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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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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
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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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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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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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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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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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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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Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what’s going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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I think it’s almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
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I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.
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I’m just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it’s very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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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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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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I like to look at the glass half full.
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I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what’s going on.
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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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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.
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We’re never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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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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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That’s the only way to defeat terrorism.
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