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.
ABDULLAH IIThe incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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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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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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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.
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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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The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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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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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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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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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class.
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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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