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Policy Quotes by Elliott Abrams
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.
- On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.
- Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both good…
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
- The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed…
- An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will…
- 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 general…
- On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of…
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