“I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.”

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About Elliott Abrams

American politician and lawyer

Elliott Abrams is an American politician and lawyer associated with U.S. foreign policy in the Reagan, George W. Bush, and Trump administrations. He is considered a neoconservative and has 221 quotes on the site. He is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2019 to 2021, he served as U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela, and from 2020 to 2021, as U.S. Special Representative for Iran.

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