Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.
ABDULLAH IIFifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
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The 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.
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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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Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings,
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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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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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I like to look at the glass half full.
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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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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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The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
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