Elliott Abrams Quotes

And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.

We should stop giving aid to countries that hate us..

No American president will ever pay a political price for choosing national security over world opinion.

There is only one Republican presidential candidate that has a proven, courageous, and conservative record on national security: Marco Rubio.

George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.

I believe the GOP should pitch its big-top tent around fiscal conservatism and a muscular foreign policy rather than carnival bark outside the sideshow tents of gay marriage and reproductive choice.

Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.

I'm the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.

In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

You help us pay for the war we’ll fight; we’ll launch it while you’re asleep at night. We don’t need friends all around the world; We’ll buy our friends with our flag unfurled, And spread our arms on a global scale To show the world that we still prevail. Oh, we’re not leaders inspiring peace, But we’re in power as the world’s police. So pay your tax for our little war, And we’ll not ask for any more. This year!

Foreign policy begins with domestic policy.

There will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, balances of power ...

We [the French] have to keep defending our vital interests …, we can say no, alone, to anything that may be unacceptable.

[George W. Bush is] … the most dangerous President in my lifetime.

The organizing premise of any nation's foreign policy is the protection of the homeland.

A President who wants to focus on domestic affairs must put foreign policy in a framework that Americans understand and that makes them feel secure.

Reject treaties that weaken or encroach upon American sovereignty.