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.
ABDULLAH IIWe 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.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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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.
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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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The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for Jordan.
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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 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.
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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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Is Israel going to continue to be “Fortress Israel”? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
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I like to look at the glass half full.
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When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
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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.
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There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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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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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope.
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Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction.
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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East.
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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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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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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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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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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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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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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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