Elliott Abrams

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the…

— Elliott Abrams

The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics…

— Elliott Abrams

I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground…

— Elliott Abrams

In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal - but his term ended in 1965, and she was elected…

— Elliott Abrams

On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

— Elliott Abrams

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and…

— Elliott Abrams

Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to…

— Elliott Abrams

Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much…

— Elliott Abrams

In the spring of 2007, Israeli intelligence brought to Washington proof that the Assad regime in Syria was building a nuclear reactor…

— Elliott Abrams

The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold…

— Elliott Abrams

In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move…

— Elliott Abrams

The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer…

— Elliott Abrams

Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a…

— Elliott Abrams

The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood…

— Elliott Abrams

There's been an Israeli position, which is 'We love Mubarak,' that permeates their whole society, the political class. That certainly differs from…

— Elliott Abrams

Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims.

— Elliott Abrams

If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important…

— Elliott Abrams

The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy.

— Elliott Abrams

President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as its support for terrorism, interference in…

— Elliott Abrams

President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection…

— Elliott Abrams

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them:…

— Elliott Abrams

If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in…

— Elliott Abrams

Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.

— Elliott Abrams

In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the…

— Elliott Abrams

The Erdogan government's first major step outside of the U.S. alliance was during the Bush Administration, when it wouldn't let Washington use…

— Elliott Abrams

At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk…

— Elliott Abrams