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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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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Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.
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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.
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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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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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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it’s about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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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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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.
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There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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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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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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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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