- Leader | January 30, 1962 -
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.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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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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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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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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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?
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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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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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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