There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East.
ABDULLAH IIIf you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction.
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Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
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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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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it’s about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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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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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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I believe strongly in the rights of women… my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
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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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Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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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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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.
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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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