Abdallah II Quotes

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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. 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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  Moving, Responsibility, People

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• It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.

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  Underestimate, Dangerous

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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.

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  Real, Believe, Together We Can

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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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  Believe, People, Killing

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• I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

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  East, Culture, West

  "Learning How To Be King". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2000.

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• You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

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  Extremist

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• My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

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  Views, People, Use

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• Don't take 'no' for an answer.

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  Answers

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• The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

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  Hands, Jordan, Palestinian

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• We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.

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  Men, Israel, Asking Why

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• We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.

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  Children, Waste, Action

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• There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East. 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. 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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  Country, Spring, Moving Forward

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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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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  Daughter, Mother, Believe

  "Transcript: Saudi King Abdullah Talks to Barbara Walters". abcnews.go.com. October 14, 2005.

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• Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.

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  Scare, Weapons, Chemicals

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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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  Loss, Past, Years

  Abdallah II's Speech at the Mideast summit in Aqaba, Jordan, edition.cnn.com. June 4, 2003.

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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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  Country, Thinking, Israel

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• Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. 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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  Wall, Diversity, Growth

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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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  Jobs, Frustration, People

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• There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

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  Ideas, Resistance, Resistance To Change

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• You're always going to have terrorism.

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  Terrorism

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• Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, 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, Offering, Views

  Abdallah II's Speech at the Mideast summit in Aqaba, Jordan, edition.cnn.com. June 4, 2003.

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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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  Opportunity, People, Needs

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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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  Moving, Home, Needs

  Abdallah II's Speech at the Mideast summit in Aqaba, Jordan, edition.cnn.com. June 4, 2003.

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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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  Country, Example, Different

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• We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.

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  Thinking, People, Brotherhood

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