Banana Quote by Elliott Abrams Download Open image “Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.” — Elliott Abrams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Banana Banana Republic Bananas Extreme Extremes Haiti Honduras Honduras Original Original Originals Poverty Poverty Remains Remains Republic Republic Poverty
Los Estados Unidos has turned into a banana republic, a fascist banana republic. — Gerald Celente Copy Share Image
Who would have thought we'd end up like a South American banana republic - and that's what worried me. — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
“The damage United Fruit had done to Latin America was beyond imaginable and, even as the Cavendish shift occurred, beyond healing. The dictatorial governments… — Dan Koeppel Copy Share Image
There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
“Graham states, “Because average country income levels do not matter to happiness, but relative distances from the average do, the poor Honduran is happier… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Honduras has become a murder capital of the world; there's horrible atrocities, infanticide, murder of women is way up, and people are fleeing in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No one is concerned with Central America anymore. If a million people are facing starvation in northern Nicaragua and Honduras, it's none of our… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US reasserted control over Nicaragua in 1990. Since then, the country has experienced a steep decline. It's now the second poorest country in… — Noam Chomsky 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
My wish was to finish my career at Arsenal, but there are always banana skins. — Kolo Toure Copy Share Image
I never looked at being second banana to anybody, I never felt that way, ever. If other people did, that's the way they looked… — Christian Cage Copy Share Image
Comfortably middle-class, I had shopped for years at the likes of Saks outlet Off Fifth, Banana Republic, and Zara. My mom raised me to… — Christina Binkley Copy Share Image
“This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a banana.” — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
Starting Monday, 7-11 will begin testing a new plastic wrap designed to keep bananas yellow and firm for five days. Though if your banana… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
I'm a baker. I'm really good at muffins. I'm really good at banana bread. I'm really good at making cookies. I'm really good at… — Molly Sims Copy Share Image
Songs like 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons, it might as well be called 'Pikachu Banana.' It's nothingness. — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
Karma is when you throw a banana in Mario Kart and you end up slipping on it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hate bananas. I just hate them. But I also think a banana suit is the funniest fruit costume a person can wear. — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
My favorite healthy foods are Jamaican chicken soup, Jamaican chicken stew peas, Jamaican brown stew chicken, plantains and banana chips. — Sanya Richards-Ross Copy Share Image
I drink a lot of Body Armor - it's a sports drink. It offers great hydration, and it's the best before/after drink for workouts.… — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image