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Abdullah II

You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
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Always Extremist Going Religion
Political development should start at the grassroots.
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Development Grassroot Political Start
I like to look at the glass half full.
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Full Glass Half Looks
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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Breakthrough Challenge Change Historic Human Knowledge Number Opportunity Reality
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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Hard Kings Monarchy Official Responsibility Son Tendency Work
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.
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Around Ballot Elected Government Hard Need Next Time Work
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
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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Appointed Front Official People Responsibility Responsible Time Today
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
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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Lessons War Winning
There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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Different Many Societies Sub Syria
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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King Official People Responsibility Tendency
What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Keep Night Poverty Unemployment
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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Able Evil Rid Terrorism World
Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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Chemical Everybody Scare Something Weapon
Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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Administration Confidence Conversation Helping Wikileaks
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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Believe Country International Moving Personally Regulation
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 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
For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don’t know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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Challenge Defense Education Health Learning Political Thinking
Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
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Believe Peace Promise Real Share Together World
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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Confrontation Everybody Military Piece Running Shake Sort Status
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
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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Accepted Believe Continue Fortress Neighbourhood Only Way
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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Action Children Dictate Future Mindedness Narrow Right Waste
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
I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what’s going on.
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Believe Energy Exactly Jordan Nuclear Partnership

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