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Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes
Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes
Abdullah II of Jordan
Leader
Born:
Jan 30
,
1962
Always
People
Think
Will
World
You
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Future
You
People
Innocent
Believe
Innocent People
Part
Then
Right
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.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Hope
Time
Me
You
People
Better
Opportunity
Lose
Every
Every Time
Tell
All Nations
Hopes
Disappointed
Days
Talk
Ready
Nations
Want
Eager
Need
If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
Abdullah II of Jordan
You
Conflict
Intelligence
National
Military
Positions
Look
Always
Israeli-Palestinian
Been
National Interests
American
Against
Interests
The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Future
Writing
World
Own
Our
Pen
Arab
Arab World
New
Hands
We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Hope
Humanity
People
Will
Make
Always
Choices
Right
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.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Change
Will
Build
Own
Our
Virtuous
Reform
Sustainable
Process
Successes
Successful
View
Cycle
Event
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.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Day
Together
Peace
Ambition
Live
President
Side
States
Security
Ministers
Prime
Prime Ministers
Beyond
Occupation
Israel
Move
Us
Let Us
Palestine
Violence
Two
There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Change
Ideas
Resistance
Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
Abdullah II of Jordan
You
Remember
Isolation
Anything
Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
Abdullah II of Jordan
Today
Creative
Age
Humanity
People
Achieve
Minds
Address
More
Badly
Fail
Know
Most
How
Still
Issues
Than
So Many People
Urgent
Much
Many
Ever
Need
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?
Abdullah II of Jordan
Hope
Freedom
Peace
Will
Made
Our
Negotiations
Gifts
Security
Compromises
Priceless
Return
Provide
Children
Them
View
Your
Painful
Many
Why
Why Not
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.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Challenges
Matter
Spring
Arab
East
Arab Spring
Critical
High
Rates
Economic
Emotional
Always
Israeli-Palestinian
Issue
Unemployment
Middle
Middle East
Happening
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Justice
Isolation
Earth
Extremists
Those
Only
Division
Come
Global
Vulnerable
Intellectual
Targets
Meaningless
Teach
Who
Satisfaction
Dispossessed
Violence
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Daily
Knowledge
Challenges
Opportunity
Changes
Vast
Altered
Globe
Historic
Human
Breakthroughs
Realities
Across
Human Knowledge
Numbers
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.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Democracy
You
People
World
Rest
Example
Think
Say
Arab
East
Arab World
Muslim
Brotherhood
Only
Because
Lot
Middle
Want
Middle East
Who
And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Me
Challenge
Rest
Think
Once
Define
Months
Several
Colleague
East
He
Jordan
Said
Left
American
Middle
Middle East
Decide
Center
Again
Then
Right
Need
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.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Hope
Become
Believe
Harmony
Way
Neighborhood
Only
Accepted
Israel
Continue
Going
Move
Move Forward
Which
Fortress
Forward
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.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Try
Country
Society
Our
Say
Sectors
Plot
Push
Envelope
Sort
American
Agenda
Certain
Zionist
Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Food
You
Class
Political
Stronger
Say
Easier
Table
Able
Ten
Ten Years
Ten Years Ago
Know
Said
Years
Years Ago
Goal
Effective
Quicker
Reform
Get
Trying
Move
Move Forward
Vibrant
Middle
Middle Class
Capable
Create
Forward
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.
Abdullah II of Jordan
You
Example
Country
Analysis
Syria
Be Different
Seeing
Cost
Jordan
For Example
Than
Going
Being
Different
Rewritten
Each
Maps
Political development should start at the grassroots.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Political
Development
Should
Grassroots
Start
Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Buy
Strange
Result
Has-Been
Table
Able
About
Through
Talking
Does
Sound
Hamas
Issue
Been
Iran
Itself
Role
Should
Play
Seat
Palestinian
Palestinians
The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Future
Security
Jordan
Israelis
Hand-In-Hand
Palestinians
I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Three
Monotheistic
Religions
Beacon
Look
Being
Jerusalem
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.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Success
Democracy
You
Class
People
Police
Stronger
Own
Group
Think
Broad
Worry
Security
About
Democratic
Democratic Process
Coming
Middle
Ends
Middle Class
Process
Really
Exploiting
Less
Presence
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.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Military
Everybody
Status
Status Quo
Running
Some
Shakes
Point
Pick
Come
Pieces
Sort
Up
Screaming
Quo
Which
Confrontation
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