"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?“

-King Abdullah II

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

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"When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins."

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

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

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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."

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