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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.


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QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that rea...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one th...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have cont...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, the...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at ...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a s...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn't take more than 20 perc...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.
FAROOQ ABDULLAH I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not...
FAROOQ ABDULLAH I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
FAROOQ ABDULLAH I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
FAROOQ ABDULLAH People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, amon...
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. P...
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM They took away time, and they gave us the clock.
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM I believe that in this way (Turkey and the Kurds) can come to the stage of consensus and dialogue fo...
ABDULLAH OCALAN Our movement is the liberation movement of the Turkish people,
ABDULLAH OCALAN If permission is granted, I say I can bring down all the men from the mountains within three months,
ABDULLAH OCALAN seriously endangered the...indivisible unity of the Turkish republic.
ABDULLAH OCALAN If we were to show our real armed power, the results would be much worse.
ABDULLAH OCALAN If the truth needs to be told, I love Turkey and the Turkish nation and I want to serve it.
ABDULLAH OCALAN Everyone should take note of the way I live, what I do and what I don't do,
ABDULLAH OCALAN superior values of European civilization.
ABDULLAH OCALAN [D'Alema said a decision would be taken] in the next few days. ... a very serious obstacle to the se...
ABDULLAH OCALAN For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I ...
ABDULLAH OCALAN We do not know the reason for his killing.
ABDULLAH MOHAMMED Earlier, we used to sell 500-600 eggs daily. Nowadays we sell only 50-100 eggs.
ABDULLAH MOHAMMED We are protesting for the sake of Iraq and not for the sake of any party. We want free and genuine e...
ABDULLAH MOHAMMED We all know that Sunnis don't like it, and that it's probably going to pass, so that's going to push...
ABDULLAH MOHAMMED This election is going to change everything, because everyone realizes now that the only way to take...
ABDULLAH MOHAMMED The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically,...
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM The program is meant to increase job satisfaction and provide greater motivation for employees. We e...
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM The meeting was held in a very good atmosphere and it marked the beginning of improved relations bet...
ABDULLAH HASSAN