What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
ABDULLAH IIWhenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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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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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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Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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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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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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Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.
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Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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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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All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
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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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I’m not the type of person that is forced.
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