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" Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there. "
Elliott Abrams
Left
Israel
Government
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" The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single strongest player. "
Elliott Abrams
Real
Egypt
Behind
" Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids. "
Elliott Abrams
Military
Will
Short
" During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner. "
Elliott Abrams
Egypt
Rights
Human Rights
" The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there. "
Elliott Abrams
Place
United
Trade
" The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy. "
Elliott Abrams
Whatever
Good
Democracy
" Tunisia was not for the United States an important country in the way, let's say, Algeria was because of its gas, because of its size, because of its struggle against terrorism that sometimes turned bloody. "
Elliott Abrams
Way
Country
Important
" The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure. "
Elliott Abrams
Going
Pressure
Compromise
" The United States and its Gulf allies, some of who are actively funding rebel groups in Syria, should undertake a serious joint review of Jordan's needs and then act together to meet them. "
Elliott Abrams
Serious
Meet
Rebel
" The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting of visas should be taken away from the State Department. For the granting of visas - especially today, when terrorism is such a complex threat - is far closer to being a law-enforcement function. "
Elliott Abrams
Airplane
Evidence
Today
" Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career. "
Elliott Abrams
About
Political
Memoir
" 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
" Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations General Assembly, travel in your own plane, plenty of cash, even job security - whether kings, sheiks or presidents, with or without elections, most serve for life. "
Elliott Abrams
Leader
Travel
Job
" In the spring of 2007, Israeli intelligence brought to Washington proof that the Assad regime in Syria was building a nuclear reactor along the Euphrates - with North Korean help. This reactor was a copy of the Yongbyon reactor the North Koreans had built, and was part of a Syrian nuclear weapons program. "
Elliott Abrams
Intelligence
Building
Help
" Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure. "
Elliott Abrams
Down
Government
Dubai
" For 22 years, Bandar bin Sultan was Saudi Arabia's influential, irrepressible ambassador in Washington. "
Elliott Abrams
Ambassador
Saudi
Washington
" The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. "
Elliott Abrams
Good
Men
Service
" 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
" I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror. "
Elliott Abrams
Leaders
Call
Palestinian
" In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal - but his term ended in 1965, and she was elected in 2001. Hardly a hand-off. "
Elliott Abrams
Elected
His
Philippines
" If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions. "
Elliott Abrams
Identity
Child
Celebrate
" Four years is a long time in politics. "
Elliott Abrams
Politics
Time
Long Time
" 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
" The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics. "
Elliott Abrams
Achievement
World
Son
" Evangelicals too often fall short in their actual teachings about Judaism. "
Elliott Abrams
About
Short
Judaism
" I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution. "
Elliott Abrams
Communist
Guy
First
" Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted. "
Elliott Abrams
Cabinet
Made
Would
" 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
" After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. "
Elliott Abrams
Context
See
Terrorism
" 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
" 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