"Why are diplomatic cables secret at all?" — Elliott Abrams

"Why are diplomatic cables secret at all?"

— Elliott Abrams

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

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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally… — Hannah Arendt
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all… — Hannah Arendt
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of… — Hannah Arendt
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and… — Hannah Arendt
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is… — Pietro Aretino
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle

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