Elliott Abrams

Terrorists that kill Americans don't get released.

— Elliott Abrams

Four years is a long time in politics.

— Elliott Abrams

Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.

— Elliott Abrams

The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.

— Elliott Abrams

Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country.

— Elliott Abrams

The Iron Dome is great for the U.S.

— Elliott Abrams

The Pope is not a political figure.

— Elliott Abrams

China has concluded that trade trumps all.

— Elliott Abrams

There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending.

— Elliott Abrams

Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech.

— Elliott Abrams

The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.

— Elliott Abrams

It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians.

— Elliott Abrams

The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.

— Elliott Abrams

Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction?

— Elliott Abrams

I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror.

— Elliott Abrams

Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.

— Elliott Abrams

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

— Elliott Abrams

Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the…

— Elliott Abrams

In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War,…

— Elliott Abrams

Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end…

— Elliott Abrams

Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.

— Elliott Abrams

Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each…

— Elliott Abrams

Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments…

— Elliott Abrams

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and…

— Elliott Abrams

For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts…

— Elliott Abrams

George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological…

— Elliott Abrams

On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest…

— Elliott Abrams

The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move…

— Elliott Abrams

President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake…

— Elliott Abrams

An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its…

— Elliott Abrams

The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of…

— Elliott Abrams

I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among professors. Gen Xers don't need them.…

— Elliott Abrams

Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies…

— Elliott Abrams

The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think they’d have to grant, that as has been said, that…

— Elliott Abrams

It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that…

— Elliott Abrams

You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces.

— Elliott Abrams

There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S.

— Elliott Abrams

Pessimism is rife in Israel.

— Elliott Abrams

Why are diplomatic cables secret at all?

— Elliott Abrams

Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim.

— Elliott Abrams