Law Quotes
Find one of the best and famous quote catagorized into topics like inspirational, motivations, deep, thoughtful, art, success, passion, frindship, life, love and many more.
Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military attack against our enemies, regardless of the risks and collateral damage, so long as it is over by the time I have to announce it.'
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
The fake republics are goners; the monarchies have a fighting chance. That's my conclusion after a short visit to the Middle East and discussions with officials and analysts there.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
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.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Gadhafi has established no national institutions, not even allowing a fake parliament of the Mubarak or Ben Ali variety that could perhaps be turned into something real.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a rapprochement of sorts began under Pres. George W. Bush at the very end of 2003.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the capitol to protect the head of government.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Tunisia was not for the United States an important country in the way, let's say, Algeria was because of its gas, because of its size, because of its struggle against terrorism that sometimes turned bloody.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
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.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations General Assembly, travel in your own plane, plenty of cash, even job security - whether kings, sheiks or presidents, with or without elections, most serve for life.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
The Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately with Arab leaders, especially in the Gulf.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
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.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a place in Israel's history by recognizing the new state 11 minutes after it declared its independence in 1948.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much time, effort, and money is spent to prevent reality from breaking through.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
In the spring of 2007, Israeli intelligence brought to Washington proof that the Assad regime in Syria was building a nuclear reactor along the Euphrates - with North Korean help. This reactor was a copy of the Yongbyon reactor the North Koreans had built, and was part of a Syrian nuclear weapons program.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
Quote by -J. D. Vance
As Canadians who proudly demand the equal treatment of minorities, religious freedom, gender equality and basic human rights for its citizens - allowing our political leaders to shamefully ignore these values in the name of business abroad, falls short of the high standard we rightfully set for ourselves.
Quote by -Jahlil Okafor
Oh, I think Canadians look like all sorts of people. That's the beauty of Canada.
Quote by -Jahlil Okafor
Inequality is on the rise in Canada and those at the top have no idea what life is like for most Canadian families.
Quote by -Jahlil Okafor