Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake ... FLOYD ABRAMS There were two sides to this, and they were all trying to pull the strings they had politically. I t... CRAIG COHOON There were a lot of things that were concerning me about this school before this. My son hasn't even... ANGELA WILLIAMS And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would tak... LOMBARD PHILIP LOMBARD I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they... FLORENCE GREEN There was like a two-week period where all of a sudden they had five teeth. Now they have nine, seve... APRIL SIX There were no good bands in my town. You know, there's like this magic town where every kid star... AUTRE NE VEUT This was really an unbelievable season for us. Nine is a staggering number and shows how much talent... HERB CYTYRN This is the team that I thought I had last year. This team was capable of being able to do this last... CINDY STEIN A complete cull of all rural poultry in the country is not necessary and we were very vocal about th... JUAN LUBROTH This is a young team, so there were no expectations. Every single competition, we had an injury on t... BO FRANK There is a level of detail that was not there before that is very important. All of us see a heighte... DARRELL ISSA You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS …Not that it was unjust; not that the scales were forced out of balance. Where there had been good... RICHARD MATHESON This is sort of an ongoing dialogue, but for the moment investors are pleased with these numbers, gi... CAI VON RUMOHR This is an ongoing thing. We anticipate there will be another report. We didn't want people to think... DENNIS PATTERSON I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there... FLANNERY O'CONNOR This was one of the few times where we actually had an issue with them and they were actually presen... CHRISTINE CHEN There were a lot of times where there was a great deal of fodder recorded and played, because there ... WOODY HERMAN The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar... DAVID HAREWOOD Some GPSS employees were not clear on the policies regarding church and state issues so (the memo) w... GERRY CRUZ We so wanted to step out to something different that we made it clear to each other there were no bo... DUSTIN KENSRUE This jury gave an award of damages that sent a message loud and clear to all sheriffs in this state ... GUY RUBIN This is certainly an opportunity. There were some other good candidates. This is a level where I thi... BOB UNGER We were very critical of some of the things the players were doing during an hour videotape meeting ... AL SCATES The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS I had a good extended family, ... There were several aunts and uncles who were really interested in ... DOROTHY LAW NOLTE I had such a good time at the show. I love to laugh and all of the people on the tour were so funny.... LAURA STANKIEWICZ In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of... DEAN KOONTZ I was most pleased with the team performance as a whole. There were lots of events were we had some ... DON KNAPP Always singing for the great state, for sure, ... But, you know, you don't want to do a song just be... GEORGE STRAIT Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. The intellectual climate of the 1970s, for which the 1950s had already paved the way, contributed to... POPE BENEDICT XVI The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew t... JASPER JOHNS So many of us were single and young, there were no boundaries between work and home. It was a tremen... FRAN ALLEN All games are big, but you could tell this one was going to be a little bigger. They (Ole Miss) were... DIETRIC SLATER There was one point in Texas where we gave up. We were taking our clothes in grocery bags out of the... GEORGE HARRIS We had a pregnant woman complaining of shortness of breath, and another woman who was asthmatic, who... LARRY LANGFORD We were 19-3 in summer league, so it's not like we didn't know we were good. No one else thought ver... CLAIR COSTELLO There were no gates, no lights, no bells, no stop signs to warn of an oncoming train, ... One month ... RYAN MOORE It was an interesting evening. There were a lot of confusing moments where I thought that parts of m... JOE DOERKSEN There were no injuries, the operation of the flight itself was not disturbed, so we feel this is an ... DAVID PROCOPIO Exile Island. There were a couple of times at tribal council this season where I was having an almos... JEFF PROBST It was a good day for us; track position was so huge and right out there at the end we were running ... CASEY MEARS I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was t... ADAM ARKIN Physically I think we were there, but mentally, for whatever the reason, we were not where we needed... DAN DAKICH This goes to show that the problems at Texas City were not worker-caused and were a result of system... LYNNE BAKER I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. ... STEPHENIE MEYER I'm glad there were no fatal technical flaws, and that they were able to find the money after all. B... MARK SYKES We've had a lot of games this year that we had no chance to win, so you can't lose games like this w... ATSUYA FURUTA Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there w... BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI Even up until yesterday (Tuesday), the conversations had been ongoing. There was no indication that ... ROBERT BREHM I think the biggest part of this was the fact that we were coming into an arena where the guys were ... ALLEN IVERSON There was a point where we were losing a lot of close games. We were right there, but we were losing... MIKE RUCKER I wish we had met away from all these battles. I wish we had met in a land of peace without social c... JIHAD ELTABEY We were told that it was a clear night. There was no ice out there. The weather was very good, and t... JANET WU In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world... JOEL KINNAMAN Did all outcasts come to this realization at a certain point in life? That being outcast from a bogu... A.S. KING They were in really small classes and had attention slathered on them. And they got a chance to be k... MONICA LEMOINE (Kansas) is really a great state, and the people there are very friendly, and there is an incredible... ELISA SHACKELTON I think everybody believed in what we were doing and where we were headed, ... We still felt we had ... TOM BRADLEY We knew this was going to be a battle. There were a lot of twists and turns and we were fortunate to... JEFF HAILE There was a tense sort of two or three days where we had not qualified for state and we were just wa... MICHAEL SMYTH We were at a crossroads, we were at a point in time where we had to make a decision to go public or ... NELSON GONZALEZ When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of E... JULIE ANDREWS I was there about an hour after the blast and the water was looking good. There were no violations. BILL MYERS They'd double-booked the whole place, so at the same time, Playboy was shooting films there. So we'r... VILLE VALO There were definitely a lot of highs this year. I think winning games that, coming into them, we sho... CARA HENDRY I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and... ADAM ARKIN It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen as... HELGE INGSTAD She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And the strangest thing about the nightmare street was that none of the millions of things for sale ... URSULA K. LE GUIN We were scheduled to leave on Sunday morning, and they gave us all of these warnings. They said ther... CLAY HOBBS There were 400 of them, and they actually worked in the mine where this had happened, CHARLIZE THERON Essentially this was an orgy on the boat, and there were lots of things happening in different parts... STEVE TALLEN I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when ... LAURA LEIGHTON No matter where I have been, my coaches and myself will not settle. By winning it all last year when... RAY EVANS There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state p... BARBARA CASTLE This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfa... ALAN HOVHANESS (Dan, John, Ted and I) were always playing in the back yard. We'd grab a stick and start beating on ... BILL WOLFORD She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I loved your world, Noah. It was a magical place, where there were stars and love, and there was hop... DEBBIE HOWELLS We have so much discrimination in this world - colour, race, creed, all of these things - and there ... ENDA KENNY For a blink of an eye, there was so much media glare. It was unexpected, and I don't think we re... EMMA MCLAUGHLIN This issue is not about an individual. This is about the law. Is this person in a class of people th... DEB KOTTEL These incidents become viewed through the lens of metaphor. And Dan Rather represents not just CBS, ... MARK FELDSTEIN I knew they were a good team. We got the No. 1 seed our district, but I think all four of us were 14... DAVE KERSCHBAUMER There were only one or two games where a coach didn't show up, and those were games I told them not ... CURT DOBBS I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, wri... URSULA BURNS You look back at the '95 season, and a lot of those guys were getting mega minutes. Michael Jord... SCOTTIE PIPPEN
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CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the high... FLOYD ABRAMS I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a ca... FLOYD ABRAMS I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best wa... FLOYD ABRAMS I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have e... FLOYD ABRAMS It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball. FLOYD ABRAMS I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years... FLOYD ABRAMS It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be ve... FLOYD ABRAMS The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and... FLOYD ABRAMS CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake ... FLOYD ABRAMS The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer abo... FLOYD ABRAMS No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People ... FLOYD ABRAMS It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometim... FLOYD ABRAMS I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawye... FLOYD ABRAMS My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then... FLOYD ABRAMS I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this an... FLOYD ABRAMS I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even g... FLOYD ABRAMS I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn'... FLOYD ABRAMS I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The N... FLOYD ABRAMS Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happ... FLOYD ABRAMS There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest... FLOYD ABRAMS I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I ... FLOYD ABRAMS So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point ... FLOYD ABRAMS When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think o... FLOYD ABRAMS I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have... FLOYD ABRAMS It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For th... FLOYD ABRAMS [One of Ms. Miller's lawyers, Floyd Abrams, wrote a letter to Mr. Libby's lawyer on Thursday in what... FLOYD ABRAMS [Appearing on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. Fitzgera... FLOYD ABRAMS [Appearing Sunday on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. F... FLOYD ABRAMS [That position, Abrams said, led Miller's team to assume that Libby wasn't really keen on seeing Mil... FLOYD ABRAMS Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the ... FLOYD ABRAMS I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, se... FLOYD ABRAMS will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that... FLOYD ABRAMS a book is allowed to criticize a holder of a trademark and mock a trademark as well. FLOYD ABRAMS coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House. FLOYD ABRAMS Judy's view is that any purported waiver she got from anyone was not on the face of it sufficiently ... FLOYD ABRAMS A visitor from a distant planet might say of all of this, 'What are you doing? Why are you limiting ... FLOYD ABRAMS [In an interview yesterday, Abrams declined to endorse Miller's account that Libby did not want her ... FLOYD ABRAMS It was made very clear to me in discussions with Mr. Libby's counsel that he had personally approved... FLOYD ABRAMS There is a great reluctance on the part of journalists..to pick up the phone and sort of badger sour... FLOYD ABRAMS voluntary and not coerced. FLOYD ABRAMS We would be defending that. Mr. Risen did a serious and solid job. He has made no apology. FLOYD ABRAMS [One of Miller's lawyers involved in the earlier discussions, Floyd Abrams, said there was] a great ... FLOYD ABRAMS The notes were redacted to omit everything but the notes taken concerning discussions with Libby abo... FLOYD ABRAMS Where the disclosure is of newsworthy information and it is made by an entity that did not act illeg... FLOYD ABRAMS She is there (in jail) for a reason. At this time, the reason is still there. She made a promise and... FLOYD ABRAMS That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true, ... But what it does mean, then, is that at... FLOYD ABRAMS The message you sent to me was viewed by Ms. Miller as inherently 'mixed,' FLOYD ABRAMS [Abrams also minimized Miller's assertion that another source may have given her the name] Valerie F... FLOYD ABRAMS On more than one occasion, Mr. Tate asked me for a recitation of what Ms. Miller would say. I did no... FLOYD ABRAMS The story wasn't there, ... It was a mistake. It was a bad mistake, and CNN has apologized for it, a... FLOYD ABRAMS [Cooper called Libby directly, Abrams told NPR, and was referred to his lawyer for authorization. Ab... FLOYD ABRAMS The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them... ELLIOTT ABRAMS I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among profess... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefi... ELLIOTT ABRAMS I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military re... ELLIOTT ABRAMS During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner... ELLIOTT ABRAMS In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senato... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the la... 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ELLIOTT ABRAMS The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitti... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' dev... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab... ELLIOTT ABRAMS While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, ou... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's c... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leade... ELLIOTT ABRAMS At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat... ELLIOTT ABRAMS In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Araf... ELLIOTT ABRAMS What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries. ELLIOTT ABRAMS They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards. CREIGHTON ABRAMS I consider myself a bassist first. CASEY ABRAMS Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day. ELLIOTT ABRAMS Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation&... ELLIOTT ABRAMS It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain. ELLIOTT ABRAMS Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human ri... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened f... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admir... ELLIOTT ABRAMS In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction? ELLIOTT ABRAMS The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place. JOHN ABRAMS A completely different type of audience. They really like traditional bluegrass music over there. JOHN ABRAMS I'm a strong believer in commitment to a place. JOHN ABRAMS Because of last year's surprise, the company decided to go ahead and manufacture extra doses. JOHN ABRAMS It's kind of a mess, and they wanted some fix. This would be a good fix. JOHN ABRAMS The level of commitment and degree of responsibility that people took changed dramatically. What it'... JOHN ABRAMS When the public really is going to react to this is if we can get through the legislative process. A... JOHN ABRAMS The Iron Dome is great for the U.S. ELLIOTT ABRAMS I've been dying to work with Simon since I saw Shaun of the Dead, JJ ABRAMS Watch the behaviour of the actors, JJ ABRAMS That was an incredible challenge, ... Though the lack of development was one of the greatest assets ... JJ ABRAMS She'll be in every episode. JJ ABRAMS He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash and would I p... JJ ABRAMS I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have ... JJ ABRAMS The whole thing was reported entirely without our cooperation. People learned that I was producing a... JJ ABRAMS Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year, ... The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but ... JJ ABRAMS Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year. The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that... JJ ABRAMS I couldn't believe it, ... I started on a Monday and turned in the outline on a Friday. On the Satur... JJ ABRAMS The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS At that time we could not use the federal government's marijuana to show that it might be beneficial... DONALD ABRAMS [Donald Abrams, MD, also commented on the biased federal approach to research. In the late '90s Abra... DONALD ABRAMS [Abrams described a historically significant episode that revealed how the medical establishment -no... DONALD ABRAMS In our studies of HIV patients with painful feet -peripheral neuropathy- animal studies have already... DONALD ABRAMS If you are a 24-year-old man, you believe that old age begins about 55 [while] if you are a 62-year-... DOMINIC ABRAMS Inter-group contact and positive relationships across the generations seem to be an important mechan... DOMINIC ABRAMS Ageism is the form of prejudice experienced most commonly by people in the UK and that seems to be t... DOMINIC ABRAMS Older people are seen basically as doddery but dear, and young people perhaps as clever but callous. DOMINIC ABRAMS Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice in Britain today, DOMINIC ABRAMS Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice experienced in the UK population and that seems to be... DOMINIC ABRAMS They played really well. We didn't execute very well. I thought we tackled poorly and we coughed the... DICK ABRAMS Every play was like watching a highlight film. He had a great game. DICK ABRAMS It was one of most amazing games I've been involved with ... We just missed a couple opportunities t... DICK ABRAMS Their No. 1 strength is to run the ball. They run the Wing-T, which is always difficult to defend. DICK ABRAMS They looked like a strong running team against Mount Vernon. They have some real talent on the line ... DICK ABRAMS We took a big step between Monroe and Lake. That has to continue to be competitive in our league, be... DICK ABRAMS Maybe for (senior quarterback Aaron) Boehme and a couple guys it's big, but most are going at it as ... DICK ABRAMS It is fair to say he has had a tremendous positive impact on my life and my business. DOUGLAS ABRAMS The Missouri Bar runs people through Constitutional curriculum. I would like to see high schools tak... DOUGLAS ABRAMS Too many Americans don't understand the importance of minority rights and the independent judiciary. DOUGLAS ABRAMS Judicial independence is the bulwark of our system. It gives life to the words of the Constitution. DOUGLAS ABRAMS President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as it... ELLIOTT ABRAMS An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affec... ELLIOTT ABRAMS A SOBA is a client/server application done right. It is a business application that is centered on W... CHARLES ABRAMS A SOBA is a client/server application done right, ... It is a business application that is centered ... CHARLES ABRAMS We don't think for a second the property won't be developed. We aren't naive. We just want something... CHARLES ABRAMS We feel strongly that Regis has been a great neighbor for a very long time. The idea is great; the t... CHARLES ABRAMS We've got financial professionals, we've got attorneys, real estate experts. Weston's probably the w... CHARLES ABRAMS A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet be... CHARLES ABRAMS A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle f... CHARLES ABRAMS I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal. DAN ABRAMS When eating an elephant take one bite at a time CREIGHTON ABRAMS You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening. CREIGHTON ABRAMS They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards. CREIGHTON ABRAMS We were looking for things to do in the downtown area that would be inexpensive but have a substanti... DAN ABRAMS But we would like a presence for the block party we have planned for April 22, DAN ABRAMS A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high ... DAN ABRAMS All the work will be done by the Sierra Vista Rotary West Club. DAN ABRAMS The plan is to do one business every weekend in time for next spring when everything will be bloomin... DAN ABRAMS This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters. DAN ABRAMS Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to mos... DAN ABRAMS He said he believed that she, quote, 'Fought like hell. He also believes that the killer or killers ... DAN ABRAMS It will require school districts to have a plan on how they will deal with school opening and closin... DAN ABRAMS The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of ... DAN ABRAMS Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or i... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Our ability to continue to increase market share for these new products has been one of the keys to ... LEIGH ABRAMS We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the v... LEIGH ABRAMS Our ability to pick up better than 10 percent market share in these new product segments in less tha... LEIGH ABRAMS The manufactured housing industry, exclusive of the FEMA orders, has not yet started to rebound. Yet... LEIGH ABRAMS It appears that most of the temporary housing ordered by FEMA has already been produced, but we expe... LEIGH ABRAMS Despite facing some growing pains in 2005, it was an outstanding year for Drew. We made significant ... LEIGH ABRAMS If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those dec... JOHN ABRAMS The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions p... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations Gen... ELLIOTT ABRAMS On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a r... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. ELLIOTT ABRAMS There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Ra... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extr... ELLIOTT ABRAMS In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet ALICE ABRAMS I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we... DAN ABRAMS The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gif... ELLIOTT ABRAMS What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to pr... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never sp... ELLIOTT ABRAMS In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is ... 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... WENDY ABRAMS