Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
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… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
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… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
