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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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• Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.

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  Israel, Jordan, Strategic

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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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• 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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• The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

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  Country, Giving, Make Or Break

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Successful, Views, Events

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

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  Ideas, Resistance, Resistance To Change

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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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• 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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• I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

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  Zero, Thinking, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

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  Remember You, Remembers You, Remember

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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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