"In Jordan, where the prime minister is always……" — Elliott Abrams
"In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace."
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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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And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling…
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Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was…
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Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great…
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The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the…
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Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people,…
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