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• I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

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  Country, Military, Outcomes

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• If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

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  Process, Democratic, Democratic Process

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• Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

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  Waiting, Bombs, Jerusalem

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• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

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  Type, Persons

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

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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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  Running, Military, Pieces

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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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• We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

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  People, Choices, Humanity

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• We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

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  Evil, World, Able

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• It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.

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  Responsibility, Years, Balls

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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 monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. ... 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. Because today, if you're appointed by the king, they don't feel that they're responsible for the people. 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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  Kings, Responsibility, Hard Work

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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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  Son, Hands, My Son

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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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  Thinking, Class, People

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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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• What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

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  Night, Unemployment, Poverty

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• 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.

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  Country, Trying, Plot

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• Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

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  Remember You, Remembers You, Remember

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• 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.

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  Justice, Intellectual, Target

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• 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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  Hard Work, Government, Needs

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• Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

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  Opportunity, Reality, Numbers

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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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  Advantage, Crisis, Situation

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• I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

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  War, Thinking, Middle East

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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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• I'm easily entertained.

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• I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

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  Three, Looks, Jerusalem

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