Controversial Quote by Elliott Abrams Download Open image “When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.” — Elliott Abrams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Controversial Defend Go Out Policy You
It's really important that policy be properly designed. It's not enough just to.. .get angry over a subject. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
You have to take risks on policy. You can't be a politician, wringing your hands, worried about what the public opinion polls are saying… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
I'm not going to back down from my controversial positions. If I were to do that, my base would be gone. And so my… — Corey Stewart Copy Share Image
When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that's fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough. — Keith Green Copy Share Image
My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice. — Kamala Harris 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
I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
For a lot of women, one of the hardest things about leadership is the desire to be liked by everyone. That's often inconsistent with… — Sarah Weddington Copy Share Image
The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent. — Wes Smith Copy Share Image
If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity,… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from… — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life,… — Henry Wriston Copy Share Image
I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at. — Rosie Perez Copy Share Image
I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image