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" In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace. "

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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. "

Elliott Abrams

Today

Travel

Limits

" The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed by the sophisticated equipment in the hands of traffickers passing through the region on the way to their market in this country. "

" Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction? "

Elliott Abrams

Simple

Inaction

" 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. "

" When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it. "

Elliott Abrams

You

Defend

" The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian 'parliament' voted to expel the British ambassador, and therefore reeks of official complicity. "

" When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it. "

" The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy. "

" Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic. "

Elliott Abrams

Caribbean

Republic

" The U.A.E. is a firm ally of the United States and deserves better treatment than it received in the Dubai Ports World fiasco in 2006. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted. "

" If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock. "

" The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace. "

" Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas. "

" Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands. "

" 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. "

" The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel. "

" Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site. "

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

" 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. "

" I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. "

" It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians. "

" The Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately with Arab leaders, especially in the Gulf. "

" 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. "

" The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. "

" Terrorists that kill Americans don't get released. "

" I would have thought that if you're going to try to punish the Syrians and prevent them from using chemical weapons again, the thing to do is a one-time strike. Maybe a cruise missile strike at one or two of their air bases just so they know what they're going to gain from using chemical weapons on the battlefield. "

" Senator Kerry was fooled by Bashar al-Assad. "