I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction.
ABDULLAH IIThe 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.
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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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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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Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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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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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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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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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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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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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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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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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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