Elliott Abrams Quotes

• 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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• Nunca dije que no tuviera ni idea de la mayoría de las cosas de las que dijiste que dije que no tenía ni idea.

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

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  World, Crossroads, Bloody

  Elliott Abrams (2002). “The Influence of Faith: Religious Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy”, p.10, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• La población siria es musulmana suní en un 74%.

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  Population, Syria

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• Hay ejemplos de dictaduras fraternales, o al menos uno: el paso del poder de Fidel a Raúl Castro.

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  Example, Passing, Dictatorship

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• Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.

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  Country, War, World

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• La política petrolera, la política hacia Estados Unidos, la política hacia Irán, Bahréin, Yemen, es muy poco probable, creo, que vean un cambio significativo. Estas políticas eran las que contaban con un amplio consenso familiar. La cuestión sería, en mi opinión, si el rey enfermara, si habría un liderazgo saudí débil en el mundo árabe y en Oriente Medio en lugar de un liderazgo saudí fuerte, pero creo que las políticas fundamentales continuarán, las que conocemos del rey Abdullah.

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  Strong, Kings, Thinking

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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 Irans theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.

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  Independent, Iran, Freedom Of Speech

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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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