Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes
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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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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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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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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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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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Nobody scares me.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
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When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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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. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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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've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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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 Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. 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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You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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I like to look at the glass half full.
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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.