All Elliott Abrams Quotes
- The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads. Been
- I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. Idea
- There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua. Any
- America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom. America
- 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… Cities
- 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… Achieve
- 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… Activist
- 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… All
- 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… Been
- 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… Able
- 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… Abdullah
- 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… Administration
- 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… Election
- 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… Administration
- 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. Been
- The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy. Best
- 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… Been
- 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… Able
- 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… Administration
- Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas
- For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the… Another Way
- Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set. Achievements
- The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers. Adviser
- China has concluded that trade trumps all. All
- The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single… Behind