Elliott Abrams Quotes

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• The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

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  Charity, Poor, Century

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• Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

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  Matter, Election, Depends

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• First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

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  Two, People, First Impression

  "The Power of the First Impression". www.wsj.com. May 09, 2009.

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• I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.

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  Ideas, Said, No Idea

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

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  America, Care, Health Care

  "Obama’s Human Rights Disaster". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 25, 2009.

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• The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

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  Punishment, Stories, Merit

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• The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.

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  Way, States, Palestinian

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• A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

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  Tyrants, United States, Needs

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• At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

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  Israel, Moments, United Nations

  "Joining the Jackals". www.weeklystandard.com. June 2, 2010.

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• While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

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  Country, Argentina, Textbooks

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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 said, that the Houthis are an internally generated movement in Yemen and the Saudis were supposed to be dealing with the Houthis, who started out in essence along their border. So one of the things that we’re seeing is a complete failure of Saudi policy toward Yemen over the past 10 years, but the Saudis totally believe that the reason the Houthis are able to succeed militarily is the amount of money, advice, and guns they are receiving from Iran.

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  Believe, Thinking, Gun

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• While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.

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  Loyalty, Fall, Community

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• Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

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  Gaps, Analyzing, Used

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• I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

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  Guy, Firsts, Revolution

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• It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals.

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  Rights, Goal, Administration

  "Obama’s Human Rights Disaster". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 25, 2009.

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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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  People, Nicaragua, Way

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• Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

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  Self, Needs, Allies

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• Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

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  Republic, Poverty, Bananas

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• After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.

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  Terrorism, Palestinian

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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 the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.

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  Talking, White, House

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• I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

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  Mother, Teacher, Queens

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• On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

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  Office, President, Middle East

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• Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones we’re familiar with under King Abdullah.

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  Strong, Kings, Thinking

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• Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.

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  Government, Dubai, Cracks

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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 suggests that he was particularly a reformer, not on the role of women, not on democratic development. There’s been a rumor in the last couple of days that he said to someone in an e-mail that he’s in favor of a constitutional monarchy, but I would be surprised if the level of repression started to go down … I think the kind of thing that we would view as significant reforms is unlikely.

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  Kings, Couple, Thinking

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