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It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.


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ELLIOTT ABRAMS Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never sp...
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ELLIOTT ABRAMS George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they d...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS In the spring of 2007, Israeli intelligence brought to Washington proof that the Assad regime in Syr...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS In public, an admission of technological inadequacy would be too embarrassing.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve t...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater re...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Peace in the Middle East has been on the Obama administration's mind from the beginning. Two day...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public schoo...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS We also plan to take a look at the configuration of all three of the Midway checkpoints and make som...
WENDY ABRAMS America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS The program is far less appealing and less effective if only a handful of airports offer it.
WENDY ABRAMS This would not have happened if the FAA would not have imposed flight caps. They are a short-term so...
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