"The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles……" — Elliott Abrams
"The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene."
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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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If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps…
— John Bolton
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Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest…
— Omar Bongo
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A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells…
— Ray Bradbury
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When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question…
— Jimmy Carter
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Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
— John Henrik Clarke
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Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.
— Hillary Clinton
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Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the…
— Hillary Clinton
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Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and…
— Eric Alterman
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
— Bertrand Russell
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The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism…
— Allyson Schwartz
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When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on…
— Sojourner Truth
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While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less…
— Dalia Mogahed
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