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 IIWe’re never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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It’s a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
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We have peace with Israel. We’re actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking,
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Ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children’s?
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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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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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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You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
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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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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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We’re never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future.
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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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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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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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