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" Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them. "
Elliott Abrams
Stealing
Real
Money
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" The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene. "
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Negative
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" You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces. "
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You
Zone
Without
" I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change. "
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Just
Going
Change
" 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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East
Middle
" Can Israelis be wistful? It is not the characteristic we usually associate with them; more typically they are said to be tough, sweet, angry, thoughtful, demanding - not wistful. "
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Thoughtful
Tough
Said
" At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready. "
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Height
War
Rights
" Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted. "
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Cabinet
Made
Would
" What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to produce an effect in line with White House policies rather than giving a full picture of a particular situation. "
Elliott Abrams
Picture
Situation
Giving
" On June 19, 1981, a vigorously healthy Justice Potter Stewart resigned from the Supreme Court at the age of 66. "
Elliott Abrams
Healthy
Justice
Age
" Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country. "
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Without
Country
Man
" In public, an admission of technological inadequacy would be too embarrassing. "
Elliott Abrams
Embarrassing
Admission
Technological
" Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas. "
Elliott Abrams
Political Party
Party
Political
" Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash. "
Elliott Abrams
Gifts
Send
Rhetoric
" In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected. "
Elliott Abrams
General
Early
Speeches
" There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story. "
Elliott Abrams
Story
Middle
Always
" Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia. "
Elliott Abrams
Before
Setbacks
American
" I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among professors. Gen Xers don't need them. They are a phenomenon of the 50-something who can't remember if his broker's number ends in 1137 or 3317. "
Elliott Abrams
College
See
Kids
" Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a place in Israel's history by recognizing the new state 11 minutes after it declared its independence in 1948. "
Elliott Abrams
Place
Christian
History
" Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. "
Elliott Abrams
Gap
Security
Used
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Peace
Bank
Conference
" After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. "
Elliott Abrams
Context
See
Terrorism
" For 22 years, Bandar bin Sultan was Saudi Arabia's influential, irrepressible ambassador in Washington. "
Elliott Abrams
Ambassador
Saudi
Washington
" The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent. "
Elliott Abrams
See
Lost
Able
" I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution. "
Elliott Abrams
Communist
Guy
First
" Never fight turf on turf. Fight it on the basis of ideas. "
Elliott Abrams
Never
Turf
Ideas
" The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them. "
Elliott Abrams
Building
Great
Effort
" The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al Qaeda-linked groups. U.S. relations with traditional allies in the Gulf, Jordan, Israel and Egypt were very good. Iran was contained, its Revolutionary Guard forces at home. "
Elliott Abrams
Down
Peace
Israel
" The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefings by the Democratic National Committee or White House flack Jay Carney. You use any information at hand, classified or not, and you spin it any way you like, fairly or not. "
Elliott Abrams
Intelligence
You
Information
" 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
" The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise. "
Elliott Abrams
Presence
Syria
Surprise