Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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
Related Quotes:
" If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened. "
Elliott Abrams
Iran
Nuclear
Influence
" The Erdogan government's first major step outside of the U.S. alliance was during the Bush Administration, when it wouldn't let Washington use Turkey as a launching ground for U.S. troops entering Iraq in 2003. "
Elliott Abrams
Outside
Government
Step
" 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
" You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces. "
Elliott Abrams
You
Zone
Without
" 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
" At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap. "
Elliott Abrams
Land
Bank
Leader
" Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported. "
Elliott Abrams
Power
Military
United
" Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas. "
Elliott Abrams
Political Party
Party
Political
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Two
You
Try
" One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be. "
Elliott Abrams
Mood
Good
Israel
" Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme. "
Elliott Abrams
Original
Republic
Poverty
" The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it. "
Elliott Abrams
Ahead
Way
State
" Opponents of U.S. sanctions have made 'unilateral sanctions' their special target. They argue that sanctions observed by many nations would be much more effective. True enough. Far better for trade with an outlaw regime to be restricted by many nations than by just one. "
Elliott Abrams
Special
True
Target
" It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals. "
Elliott Abrams
Goals
Grow
Me
" The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner. "
Elliott Abrams
Courage
Face
Lift
" In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across the table - do. They are not keeping secrets from us, but from two other groups: their enemies and their subjects. "
Elliott Abrams
Enemies
Two
Us
" Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969. "
Elliott Abrams
Far
Left
Worse
" It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was happy to have Democratic support, and the Reagan administration was happy to have Democrats in it; they took the view that, after all, Reagan himself had been a Democrat, so it was not a strike against you. "
Elliott Abrams
Impossible
Happy
View
" 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
" On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East. "
Elliott Abrams
Office
East
Middle
" Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972 and 1976, and was for much of the 1970s and 1980s one of the most powerful men in America. "
Elliott Abrams
Men
America
Death
" The Iron Dome is great for the U.S. "
Elliott Abrams
Dome
Iron
Great
" During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president's main concern would be domestic. "
Elliott Abrams
Thought
Security
Lead
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Country
War
Democracy
" 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
" If a Jewish group sat down with a Christian conservative group, and there was a so-called Messianic Jew at the table, that would be the end of the meeting. "
Elliott Abrams
Down
Meeting
Group
" There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story. "
Elliott Abrams
Story
Middle
Always
" First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes. "
Elliott Abrams
Size
New People
People
" 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
" Four years is a long time in politics. "
Elliott Abrams
Politics
Time
Long Time