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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The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror.

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The Erdogan government's first major step outside of the U.S. alliance was during the Bush Administration, when it wouldn't let Washington use Turkey as a launching ground for U.S. troops entering Iraq in 2003.

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While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left.

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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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Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington.

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It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.

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From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.

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The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military attacks to bring Qaddafi down. The question was always how ...

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Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it.

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The threat that Syria might transfer more advanced weapons to Hezbollah has existed for a long time.

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I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.

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President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military attack against our enemies, regardless of the risks and collateral damage, so long as it is over by the tim...

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Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits.

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Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.

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What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.

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I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground.

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Peace in the Middle East has been on the Obama administration's mind from the beginning. Two days after his inauguration, the president traveled to the State Department to announce the appointment of George Mitchell as his Middle East peace negotiato...

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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...

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There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.

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The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.

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The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

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Author Bio

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