Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
ABDULLAH IIJerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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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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Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction.
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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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Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what’s going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
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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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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.
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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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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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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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I like to look at the glass half full.
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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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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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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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