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" The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it. "
Elliott Abrams
Ahead
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism. "
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" 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. "
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Giving
" There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro. "
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Anyway
Power
" Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists is a moral imperative for us and also makes the world safer for us. "
Elliott Abrams
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World
" A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy. "
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Nation
Great
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" The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. "
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Feelings
Sex
Over
" In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact. "
Elliott Abrams
Impact
American
Kind
" 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
" Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are. "
Elliott Abrams
Free
Open
Matter
" Four years is a long time in politics. "
Elliott Abrams
Politics
Time
Long Time
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Thoughtful
Tough
Said
" It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain. "
Elliott Abrams
Try
Bahrain
Fleet
" 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
" If you say to the White House, 'Obama has been very unfriendly to Israel,' they say, 'What do you mean? It's the best military-to-military relationship ever.' And that part is true. "
Elliott Abrams
Relationship
Best
You
" Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end to Israeli construction froze not the settlements but the diplomacy. "
Elliott Abrams
End
Construction
Decision
" There's been an Israeli position, which is 'We love Mubarak,' that permeates their whole society, the political class. That certainly differs from many of us in the pro-Israel camp in the United States. "
Elliott Abrams
Society
Us
Class
" Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics. "
Elliott Abrams
Collective
Like
Politics
" 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
" I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him. "
Elliott Abrams
Long
Human Rights
Life
" What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries. "
Elliott Abrams
Israel
Wants
Countries
" As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt. "
Elliott Abrams
America
Words
Peace
" Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career. "
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About
Political
Memoir
" Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. "
Elliott Abrams
Gap
Security
Used
" 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
" The Arab monarchies, especially Jordan and Morocco, are more legitimate than the false republics, with their stolen elections, regime-dominated courts and rubber-stamp parliaments. "
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More
Elections
False
" During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner. "
Elliott Abrams
Egypt
Rights
Human Rights
" The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel. "
Elliott Abrams
Israel
Egypt
Depends