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" Does anyone believe that Kofi Annan scares Bashar Assad? "
Elliott Abrams
Believe
Anyone
Scares
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" When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it. "
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You
Go
Defend
" 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 negotiator. "
Elliott Abrams
Peace
Beginning
Mind
" Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the capitol to protect the head of government. "
Elliott Abrams
Great
Head
Government
" Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972 and 1976, and was for much of the 1970s and 1980s one of the most powerful men in America. "
Elliott Abrams
Men
America
Death
" Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings. "
Elliott Abrams
Over
Gone
Meetings
" We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism. "
Elliott Abrams
Open
Society
Speech
" Rahm Emanuel seems to think he knows Israel very well, and that the way to treat that country and its democratically-elected government is the way he treats all opponents in politics: by attacking and attacking. "
Elliott Abrams
Government
Politics
Think
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Obligation
Been
Charity
" On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days. "
Elliott Abrams
Human Rights
Silent
People
" The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility. "
Elliott Abrams
Work
Against
Logic
" Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation's university system, their marriages are not recognized and their cemeteries and holy places have been desecrated. It is government policy to incite hatred of Bahais in the official media. "
Elliott Abrams
Hatred
Government
Children
" Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II. "
Elliott Abrams
World
Country
Modern
" After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. "
Elliott Abrams
Context
See
Terrorism
" One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be. "
Elliott Abrams
Mood
Good
Israel
" American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world. "
Elliott Abrams
Today
Cold
War
" For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly. "
Elliott Abrams
Been
Journey
Many
" It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians. "
Elliott Abrams
Govern
Palestinians
Israel
" Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim. "
Elliott Abrams
Population
Muslim
Sunni
" We use American influence with Israel not to promote economic growth in the West Bank, but to try and impede Jewish - never Arab - construction in the capital city. "
Elliott Abrams
Growth
Construction
City
" You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces. "
Elliott Abrams
You
Zone
Without
" There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro. "
Elliott Abrams
Castro
Anyway
Power
" Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews. "
Elliott Abrams
You
Yourself
Living
" At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap. "
Elliott Abrams
Land
Bank
Leader
" Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It is instead based on a definition of the Mideast conflict as one between Jews and Muslims, precisely the position of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. "
Elliott Abrams
Conflict
Support
Nationalism
" There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit. "
Elliott Abrams
Israel
Over
Order
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Teacher
Father
Mother
" First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes. "
Elliott Abrams
Size
New People
People
" Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006. "
Elliott Abrams
Election
Find
Free
" I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. "
Elliott Abrams
Never
Most
Idea
" Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington. "
Elliott Abrams
Washington
Never
Much