King Abdullah II Quotes

It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
King Abdullah II

Dangerous, Anybody

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.
King Abdullah II

Life, Good, Courage

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

Age, Today, Humanity

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.
King Abdullah II

Democracy, Rest, Muslim

If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
King Abdullah II

Future, Innocent

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.
King Abdullah II

Peace, Live, Together

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.
King Abdullah II

War, Bad, Learn

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.
King Abdullah II

Success, Democracy, Worry

Political development should start at the grassroots.
King Abdullah II

Political, Start, Grassroots

I like to look at the glass half full.
King Abdullah II

Full, Half, Glass

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
King Abdullah II

Happy, Wrong, Everybody

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
King Abdullah II

Time, Fear, Waiting

Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
King Abdullah II

Crisis, Situation, Taking

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

Country, Difficult, Start

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.
King Abdullah II

Leadership, Family, Ball

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?
King Abdullah II

Peace, Hope, Freedom

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.
King Abdullah II

Same, Son, Hand

The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
King Abdullah II

Future, Security, Jordan

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
King Abdullah II

Night, Poverty, Keeps

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.
King Abdullah II

Challenge, Said, Again

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.
King Abdullah II

Hope, End, Defeat

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.
King Abdullah II

Future, Forward, Help

Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
King Abdullah II

Everybody, Weapons, Chemical

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.
King Abdullah II

United, Israel, Nations

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
King Abdullah II

Education, Health, Political

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Biography

Nationality: Jordanian

Type: Statesman

Born: January 30, 1962

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