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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.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Attacks Become Civilians Denial Freedom Important International Issues President Religious Religious Freedom Says Starvation States Sudan United United States

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Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Achievements Amendment Blocked Come Committee Compromises Congress Gone Hidden Individual Meetings Members Over Private Pushed Reports Thousands Through Unnoticed Years

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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.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Achieved America Congressman Death Far Greater Henry His Jackson Legislators Men Most Most Powerful Much Powerful President Ran Renown Senator Than Until 1970S 1980S

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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

Topics: Abc Argentina Brazil Chile Countries Democratic Economics Free Free Market Market Politics Seem Settled Textbooks Used While

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In public, an admission of technological inadequacy would be too embarrassing.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Admission Embarrassing Public Technological Too Would

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While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Abroad American Bid Block Certain Commodities Companies Competitors Contracts Deny Designed Disapproval Express Find Foreign French German Hostile Japanese Legislation Perhaps Regimes Resources Tangled Themselves Trade Web While

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Opponents of U.S. sanctions have made 'unilateral sanctions' their special target. They argue that sanctions observed by many nations would be much more effective. True enough. Far better for trade with an outlaw regime to be restricted by many nations than by just one.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Argue Better Effective Enough Far Just Just One Made Many More Much Nations Observed Opponents Outlaw Regime Restricted Sanctions Special Target Than Trade True Unilateral Would

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Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Achieved Collective Forms International Like Politics Rarely Require Sanctions Security

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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

Topics: Against Collective Conditions Flawless However International Logic Made Odds Possibility Prevailing Provided Scene Security Strongly Work

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Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Been Bring Clearly Community Developed Eliminated End International International Community Mass Nor Quick Response Very Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: January 24th, 1948

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