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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

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Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists is a moral imperative for us and also makes the world safer for us.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Activists Also American Bush Effective George George W George W. Bush Human Human Rights Imperative Makes Moral Policies Presidents Pursued Reagan Rights Safer Serious Support Two Understood Us Were World

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It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was happy to have Democratic support, and the Reagan administration was happy to have Democrats in it; they took the view that, after all, Reagan himself had been a Democrat, so it was not a strike against you.

~Elliott Abrams

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I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: City Class Democrats Family Father Grew Jewish Kind Lawyer Middle Middle Class Mother New New York New York City Public Public School Queens School School Teacher Teacher Up Were York

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When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.

~Elliott Abrams

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For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing.

~Elliott Abrams

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Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set.

~Elliott Abrams

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The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Adviser Amount Bunch Equipment Fabulous Guys Soviet Tough

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China has concluded that trade trumps all.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: China Concluded Trade

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There's been an Israeli position, which is 'We love Mubarak,' that permeates their whole society, the political class. That certainly differs from many of us in the pro-Israel camp in the United States.

~Elliott Abrams

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: January 24th, 1948

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