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Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the 'Green Movement' there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Administration Backing Birth Cause Delay Egypt Election Evidence Green Human Human Rights Iran June Libya Movement Never Now Obama Obama Administration Office Problem Reaction Rights Slow Stealing Syria Third Year

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The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: American Any Apart Assimilation Comfortably Fitting Good Jew Living Never Observant Other Sense Society Some

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In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Adhere Elections Even Forced Free Freedom Freedom Of Religion Freedom Of Speech Independent Iran Judiciary Narrow Official Press Religion Rules Set Speech Theocracy Who

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

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Between Experts First First Impressions Impressions Matter Minutes New New People People Say Seconds Size Somewhere Two Up

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In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Always Announced Back Conversations Country Democratic Emerge Jordan King Minister More Move New Palace Party Political Political Party Prime Prime Minister Reforms Room Royal Some System Tend Toward Victorious Where Would

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Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Banana Extreme Honduras Original Poverty Remains Republic

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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.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Additional American Arab Cooperation Dominance East Even Failure Iran Israeli-Palestinian Issues Leaders Less Likely Making Middle Middle East Nuclear Program States Stop Struggle Understood United United States Weakness

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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

Topics: Being Caribbean Country Democracy Equipment Forces Hands Market Military Only Passing Police Region Sophisticated Stability Threaten Through Throughout Tiny War War On Drugs Way Well Where Won

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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

Topics: Administration Alliance Bush Bush Administration Entering First Government Ground Iraq Launching Major Outside Step Troops Turkey Use Washington

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In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat - 13 times.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Arafat Bill Bill Clinton Clinton Foreign House Leader Most Often Times Visited White White House Who Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: January 24th, 1948

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