Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
It is a keen measure of the fall of American influence in the region when a Palestinian leader responds to intense American pressure to go to the negotiating table by waiting to see if Arab League foreign ministers will let him take that step. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
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. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile – what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries – seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat – 13 times. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I don’t think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
