Home / Quotes / Quote by Elliott Abrams

Quote by Elliott Abrams

“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.”

Quote by Elliott Abrams

Author

Elliott Abrams is an American lawyer born on January 24, 1948. He has extensive experience in international law and foreign policy, having held several government positions. more

You May Also Like

“We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.”

Author:Emanuel Ax

“Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.”

Ends Certain Waiting Successful Pieces Sections Variation

Author:Emanuel Ax

“If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.”

Ifs Audience Response

Author:Emanuel Ax

“This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.”

People Want Firsts Problem Technology Seeing Solve Telephones Spam

Author:Eric Allman

“Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.”

Facts Force Nations President Evidence Wings Currents Tendencies Legacy Right Wing Inconvenient Mania Unwelcome President Reagan

Author:Eric Alterman

“President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.”

Today President Taxes Raised President Obama President Reagan

Author:Eric Alterman

“The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.”

States United United States Media Fairs Myth Debate Empowering Shakes Liberal Media

Book:What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News

Source: What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News

“So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.”

Wells Care Political Decision Mistake Negative Court Supreme Reform Health Care Eggs Supreme Court Baskets Health Care Reform

Author:Eric Alterman

“There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.”

People Ifs Years Stills Ideas Problem Lying Force Five Cutting Republican Taxes Years Ago Tables Fundamentals Threat Five Years Offering Millionaire Recessions Tax Cuts Dip

Author:Eric Alterman

“I was always a very good student.”

Students Very Good Good Students

Author:Renee Fleming