Elliott Abrams quotes and sayings
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- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
- Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.
- Tunisia is small - just ten million, no great natural resources.
- When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.
- Why are diplomatic cables secret at all?
- You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.