I’m easily entertained.
ABDULLAH IIHistoric 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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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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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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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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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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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes – a virtuous cycle of change.
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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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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 security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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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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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class.
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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 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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Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.
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