"Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by……" — Elliott Abrams
"Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier."
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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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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed…
— Diane Arbus
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Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.
— John Lancaster Spalding
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He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It…
— David Cronenberg
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Aristocrats have heirs, the poor have children, and the rest keep dogs.
— Spike Milligan
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What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make…
— Peter Viereck
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The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient…
— Florence King
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Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at…
— Bob Saget
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