The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. … There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king.
ABDULLAH IIMr. 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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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.
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All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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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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I’m easily entertained.
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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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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I like to look at the glass half full.
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I’ve benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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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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Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings,
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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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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
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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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