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And it’s about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you’re appointed by the king, they don’t feel that they’re responsible for the people.

Abdullah II

You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
ABDULLAH II

Always Extremist Going Religion
Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
ABDULLAH II

Chemical Everybody Scare Something Weapon
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.
ABDULLAH II

Around Ballot Elected Government Hard Need Next Time Work
I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
ABDULLAH II

Country Energy None Nuclear Peaceful
My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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End never People Use View Violence Well
There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
ABDULLAH II

Different Many Societies Sub Syria
There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East.
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Country East Forward Middle Moving Spring
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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Good Life Million Moving New People Position Responsibility
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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Challenge Economic Emotional Issue Rate Spring Unemployment
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don’t learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
ABDULLAH II

Lessons War Winning
What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Keep Night Poverty Unemployment
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.
ABDULLAH II

Arab Challenge East Economic Happening High Middle Rate Spring Unemployment
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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Breakthrough Challenge Change Historic Human Knowledge Number Opportunity Reality
I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class.
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Class Democracy People Police Pressure Security Success Thinking
That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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Frustration Hungry Job Political Sphere Translate
If 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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Conflict Intelligence Look Military National Position
Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
ABDULLAH II

Advantage Always Crisis Situation
I’m not the type of person that is forced.
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Forced Person Type Willingly
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.
ABDULLAH II

Believe Daughter Mother Right Sister Wife Woman
Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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Allow Answer never No
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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Action Children Dictate Future Mindedness Narrow Right Waste
The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.
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Hand Inherited Monarchy Same Son
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
ABDULLAH II

Better Democracy Eager Hope Need Opportunity People Want
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.
ABDULLAH II

Believe Country International Moving Personally Regulation
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.
ABDULLAH II

King Official People Responsibility Tendency
Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction.
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Destruction Diversity Extremist Growth Power Seek Wall
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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Create Democratic Global Hope Horizon Isolation New Radically Smaller System Wall

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