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" The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers. "
Elliott Abrams
Equipment
Tough
Soviet
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" The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left. "
Elliott Abrams
Simply
Than
Left
" Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both good politics and good policy. "
Elliott Abrams
Rhetoric
Good
Lift
" 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
" 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 Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules. "
Elliott Abrams
Speech
Religion
Rules
" In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat - 13 times. "
Elliott Abrams
White House
Years
House
" While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left. "
Elliott Abrams
Government
Democracy
Power
" 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
" Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end. "
Elliott Abrams
End
Quick
Been
" 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
" President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as its support for terrorism, interference in Lebanon, and encouragement of jihadist attacks on Americans in Iraq. "
Elliott Abrams
Encouragement
People
Support
" Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters. "
Elliott Abrams
Deal
Matters
Mundane
" 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
" Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic. "
Elliott Abrams
Caribbean
More
Republic
" There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S. "
Elliott Abrams
Muslim
" Terrorists that kill Americans don't get released. "
Elliott Abrams
Terrorists
Released
Get
" Pessimism is rife in Israel. "
Elliott Abrams
Rife
Pessimism
Israel
" Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day. "
Elliott Abrams
Exports
Day
Million
" For 22 years, Bandar bin Sultan was Saudi Arabia's influential, irrepressible ambassador in Washington. "
Elliott Abrams
Ambassador
Saudi
Washington
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Positive
Negative
Victory
" George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly. "
Elliott Abrams
System
Compromise
Hard
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Stop
View
Someone
" Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead. "
Elliott Abrams
Future
Conflict
Need
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Bible
Gifts
Story
" The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise. "
Elliott Abrams
Presence
Syria
Surprise
" 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
" The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known. "
Elliott Abrams
Ancient
Community
Well
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
You
Back
Clock
" 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
" It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians. "
Elliott Abrams
Govern
Palestinians
Israel
" 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