When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
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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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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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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The 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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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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And no matter what’s happening in the Middle East – the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment – the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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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.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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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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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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It’s a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
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I like to look at the glass half full.
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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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