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 IIThe 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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All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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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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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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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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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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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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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 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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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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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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