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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More Abdullah II Quotes
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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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.
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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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All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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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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You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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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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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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The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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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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The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for Jordan.
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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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