The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
ABDULLAH IIWhenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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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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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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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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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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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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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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I believe strongly in the rights of women… my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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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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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class.
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We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
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There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
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Ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children’s?
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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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