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.
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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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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The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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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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Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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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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That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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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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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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Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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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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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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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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