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I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

~Ella Maillart

Topics: Abroad Few Foreign Go Had Languages Learn Therefore Wanted

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The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Affairs Artificial Culture Discourse Foreign Foreign Policy International More Nowhere Policy Politics Separation Than

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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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Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Allies Conduct Confront Focused Foreign Foreign Policy Himself Must Nations Needs Obama Policy Rather Self-Centered States Strangely Than United United States

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During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president's main concern would be domestic.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: About Affairs Bush Campaign Colin Concern Domestic Election Foreign Foreign Policy Front Generally Know Lead Main Much National National Security Policy President Security Thought While Would

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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

Topics: American Arab Fall Foreign Go Him Influence Intense Keen Leader League Measure Ministers Negotiating Palestinian Pressure Region Responds See Step Table Take Waiting Will

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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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In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across the table - do. They are not keeping secrets from us, but from two other groups: their enemies and their subjects.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Across Because Cases Enemies Foreign Groups Keeping Leaders Marked Most Other Requires Secret Secrets Speaking Subjects Table Those Two Us

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While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.

~Elton Gallegly

Topics: Activities Border Cannot Companies Complicity Enforce Foreign Ignoring Illegal Imperative Internal Laws Nations Open Our Presence Promote Secured Southern Stop Strong Unless While

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We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need.

~Emilio Estevez

Topics: About American Country Exactly Exactly What Foreign Idea Meditation Most Need Pilgrimage Taking Think Totally Walk

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