Elliott Abrams Quotes
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People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.
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The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.
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There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.
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The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers.
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In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.
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The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.
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When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.
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At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.
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You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces.
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The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.
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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.
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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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Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.
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For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies.
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The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
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Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them.
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I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus.
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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.
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Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist leaders in Syria. Response? Nothing.
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What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.
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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.
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In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even less likely.
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America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.
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If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.