75 Quotes by Abdullah II of Jordan

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

Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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