Elliott Abrams

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.

The U.A.E. is a firm ally of the United States and deserves better treatment than it received in the Dubai Ports World fiasco in 2006.

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.