Quotes by Elliott Abrams

About Elliott Abrams:

Elliott Abrams is an American diplomat, lawyer and political scientist who served in foreign policy positions for U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. While serving for Reagan, Abrams and retired U.S. Marine Corps officer Oliver North were integral players in the Iran-Contra affair.
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On June 19, 1981, a vigorously healthy Justice Potter Stewart resigned from the Supreme Court at the age of 66.

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Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.

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We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.

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The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy.

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If you say to the White House, 'Obama has been very unfriendly to Israel,' they say, 'What do you mean? It's the best military-to-military relationship ever.' And that part is true.

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There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

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Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.

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If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.

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The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do so without agreeing to unfair, damaging compromises.

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You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution.

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In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.

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If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.

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

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American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

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When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

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For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that acc...

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President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.

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The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the pr...

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Tunisian liberals say that the U.S. Embassy in Tunis is unengaged with their efforts to make sure the Tunisian model remains one of expanding freedom.

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In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even ...

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Author Bio

  • NameElliott Abrams
  • DescriptionPolitician
  • BornJanuary 24, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionLawyer