Elliott Abrams Quotes

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• The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
• I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.
• There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.
• America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.
• I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was…
• It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect…
• Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists…
• When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the…
• It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly…
• The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think they’d have to grant, that as has been said, that the Houthis are…
• Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies…
• In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter…
• Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas…
• It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was happy to have…
• The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.
• The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy.
• 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 construction…
• When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and…
• The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer it will be…
• Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas.

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