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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

Abdullah II

That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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Frustration Hungry Job Political Sphere Translate
The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it’s two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it’s a good thing.
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Back Good Humanity Look Spring Thinking Year
The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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Break Country Future Giving Incentive Make
I’ve benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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Benefited Both Culture East Societies West
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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Country Energy None Nuclear Peaceful
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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Birthday Creative Issue Mind People Urgent
I think it’s almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
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Expert Impossible Predict Rapid Thinking
Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.
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Anything Challenge Isolation Remember
Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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Bombs Fear Jerusalem Time Waiting
Our response has been, “Well, let’s then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.” That hasn’t happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.
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Around Blame Effort Happened Palestinian Response Table
It’s a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I’m not going to drop the ball on my shift.
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Ball Burden Descendant Leadership Muhammad Prophet Responsibility Year
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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Blowing Demolition Home Moving Need Palestinian
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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Believe Continue Hope Israel Moving Neighborhood
I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Afford Middle East Thinking War
At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That’s the only way to defeat terrorism.
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Defeat Hope Iraq Stability Terrorism
There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East.
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Country East Forward Middle Moving Spring

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

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