There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
ABDULLAH IIThe incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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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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Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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I’m easily entertained.
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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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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don’t know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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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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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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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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I like to look at the glass half full.
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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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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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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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Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.
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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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