"At the height of the Cold War, when……" — Elliott Abrams
"At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready."
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156 Quotes by Elliott Abrams
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The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
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I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea…
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There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.
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America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.
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I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public…
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It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate…
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Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American…
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When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to…
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It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that…
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The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think they’d have to grant, that as has been…
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Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change.…
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In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as…
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