Quotes By King Abdullah II

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.

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

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

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.

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.

Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.

Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

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

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?

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.

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

I like to look at the glass half full.

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

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

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

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.

Nobody scares me.

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

I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.

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

The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they're going to turn around and say, 'Hey, we want a bigger say in things.' So, I knew what I was getting into right at the beginning. It's the right thing to do.

We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.

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

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.

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

Political development should start at the grassroots.

Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.