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Elliott Abrams Quotes

The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer it will be to a Middle East policy worthy of our country and its long alliance with our ally in Jerusalem – which is, actually, the capital of the state of Israel.

– Elliott Abrams

It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain.

– Elliott Abrams

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

Obama isn’t good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech.

– Elliott Abrams

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

– Elliott Abrams

When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond.

– Elliott Abrams

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

Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.

– Elliott Abrams

The Iron Dome is great for the U.S.

– Elliott Abrams

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

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

President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: ‘I will undertake any military attack against our enemies, regardless of the risks and collateral damage, so long as it is over by the time I have to announce it.’

– Elliott Abrams

We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press… really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.

– Elliott Abrams

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

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

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

I think President Obama views Israel as a problem that needs to be solved.

– Elliott Abrams

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

Syria’s population is 74% Sunni Muslim.

– Elliott Abrams

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

Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.

– Elliott Abrams

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

The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left.

– Elliott Abrams

Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

– Elliott Abrams

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

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

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

– Elliott Abrams

Does anyone believe that Kofi Annan scares Bashar Assad?

– Elliott Abrams

Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world’s most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful.

– Elliott Abrams

Cheney’s memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush’s administration, but about his entire life and political career.

– Elliott Abrams

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