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> [Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/obama-s-foreign-policy-is-strangely-self-centered-focused-on-himself/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/334/elliott-abrams-1577_allies_obama-s-foreign-policy-is-strangely-self_1377299.jpg)

> [It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/it-was-simply-impossible-to-support-carter-for-reelection-in-1980-and/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/882/elliott-abrams-1577_administration_it-was-simply-impossible-to-support-cart_1950122.jpg)

> [Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/moammar-gaddafi-who-has-called-himself-the-guide-of-the-first-of/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

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## Other authors on Himself

## More by Elliott Abrams

> [President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/president-obama-has-never-summarized-the-obama-doctrine-with-such/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

> [The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/the-story-of-the-jews-in-the-bible-is-replete-with-incidents-of-their/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

> [History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/history-may-someday-record-that-the-arab-awakening-that-began-with/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

> [From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/from-its-earliest-days-in-the-nineteenth-century-and-until-the/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

> [The Pope is not a political figure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/the-pope-is-not-a-political-figure/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 to Israeli…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/israel-and-the-palestinians-had-been-at-the-table-together-for/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

> [Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/pundits-are-used-to-analyzing-the-gap-between-what-our-ideals-suggest/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

> [The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/the-egyptian-military-and-the-government-of-israel-have-long-had-a/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

> [In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/in-2007-early-in-the-improbable-presidential-candidacy-of-barack/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

> [Terrorists that kill Americans don't get released.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/terrorists-that-kill-americans-don-t-get-released/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

> [Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/refusing-to-lift-sanctions-and-adopting-tougher-rhetoric-toward-iran/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

> [At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/at-the-height-of-the-cold-war-when-ronald-reagan-was-president-the/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

> [I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/i-personally-would-not-talk-to-a-jew-for-jesus/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

> [When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/when-freedom-of-the-press-is-threatened-the-united-states-should-be/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

> [Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist leaders in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/israel-bombed-the-syrian-nuclear-reactor-in-2007-what-the-syrians-did/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

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