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Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

Abdullah II

There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it’s about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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King Official People Responsibility Tendency
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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Hard Kings Monarchy Official Responsibility Son Tendency Work
Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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Imperative Jordan Peace Strategic
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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Believe Daughter Mother Right Sister Wife Woman
I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class.
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Class Democracy People Police Pressure Security Success Thinking
It’s a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I’m not going to drop the ball on my shift.
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Ball Burden Descendant Leadership Muhammad Prophet Responsibility Year
Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings,
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Build Children Compromise Negotiation Offering Peace Success View
It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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Always Anybody Dangerous Underestimate
Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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Administration Confidence Conversation Helping Wikileaks
There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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Change Idea Resistance
If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
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Conflict Intelligence Look Military National Position
If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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Democratic Happy Process Something Wrong
The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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Future Hand New Own World Writing
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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Burden Courage Done Need See Wisdom
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.
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Country Destabilize Envelope Plot Sector Trying Zionist
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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Ambition Israel Moving Occupation President Prime Minister State Two Violence
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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Expert Impossible Predict Rapid Thinking
Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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Allow Answer never No
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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Children Freedom Gift Priceless Provide Return Security
If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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Believe Future Innocent Killing People Right
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don’t learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
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Lessons War Winning
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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Believe Continue Hope Israel Moving Neighborhood
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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Country International Israel Recognize Thinking United Nation World
Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
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Believe Peace Promise Real Share Together World
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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Hand Inherited Monarchy Same Son
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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Create Democratic Global Hope Horizon Isolation New Radically Smaller System Wall
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes – a virtuous cycle of change.
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Cycle Event Process Success Successful View Virtuous

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