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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.

Abdullah II

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
I think it’s almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
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Expert Impossible Predict Rapid Thinking
The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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Break Country Future Giving Incentive Make
What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Keep Night Poverty Unemployment
If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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Democratic Happy Process Something Wrong
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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Confrontation Everybody Military Piece Running Shake Sort Status
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.
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Better Democracy Eager Hope Need Opportunity People Want
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.
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Around Ballot Box Elected Government Hard Need Work
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
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
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
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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Brotherhood Democracy Example People Thinking World
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
Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
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Ambition Israel Moving Occupation President Prime Minister State Two Violence
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
At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That’s the only way to defeat terrorism.
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Defeat Hope Iraq Stability Terrorism

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