"Sometimes the results of a first free election……" — Elliott Abrams
"Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006."
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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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The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this…
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Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.
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If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next…
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the…
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It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately…
— Russell Baker
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
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The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I…
— Roseanne Barr
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The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the…
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I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be…
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is…
— John Quincy Adams
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
— John Quincy Adams
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