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Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo. -- Jacques Verges
The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power. -- Bianca Jagger
One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship. -- Lincoln Diaz-Balart
Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies. -- Paul Berg
Every Palestinian family feels the effects of the international embargo. But the more the pressure on the government grows, the more support we receive, both from the Palestinian street and from the Arab and Islamic world. -- Ismail Haniyeh
And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs. -- Shimon Peres
Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk. -- Richard Yates
Did you know that..........'embargo' spelled backwards is 'o grab me -- Colin Mochrie
No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein. -- Alexander Cockburn
I can tell the negotiators, please, when you consider all the options, do not be constrained by the risk of an oil embargo on Iranian oil. -- Claude Mandil
It would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo. -- Dan Quayle
Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone. -- George William Norris
This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic. -- Edwidge Danticat
Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba - but it is undoubtedly the most self-defeating. -- Stephen Kinzer
When Colonel Gadhafi started using his air force against civilians on the ground, we did not hesitate. Then we supported the resolution of the Security Council, which introduced arms embargo for Libya. -- Sergei Lavrov
The U.S. is re-establishing relations with Cuba. But before President Obama can lift the embargo, it will need approval from the Republican-controlled Congress - or as Republicans who called Obama said, 'Close, but no cigar.' -- Jimmy Fallon
In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures - sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns - some organized by popular movements. -- Noam Chomsky
450,000 Iraqi children have died from starvation and lack of medicine as a result of our embargo. If you believe God loves little children - and hundreds of thousands more Iraqi children will die if there is war - you have to believe that God will judge us very harshly for this. -- Jane Elliott
Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port. -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and this new object then becomes, to use the apt expression of one of my women patients, 'impossible' - till at last the whole world lies under an embargo of 'impossibility'. -- Sigmund Freud
Now, in answer to the question would we use force in the Middle East. I don't know...I hope not. We have no plans to, it is conceivable, I guess. It would be almost as bad as the seven days in May. You conjure up a situation where there is another oil embargo, and the people in this country are not only inconvenienced and uncomfortable, but suffer. -- George Scratchley Brown
Every single American can exclaim, 'Nothing justifies what they did in New York and Washington,' not even the bombs that our government has dropped on them for ten years or the embargo that has caused the deaths of so many children. That's of course true...The issue is simply an acceptance of reality and a fundamental fact of life: When governments do bad things to people, people sometimes retaliate. -- Jacob G. Hornberger
We call for a weapons embargo. -- Jill Stein
I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature. -- Kate Zambreno
[Barack Obama] is aware of the criticism back home [from Cuba] that this embargo still exists. -- David Muir
Hillary Clinton supported concessions to the Castro brothers and got almost nothing in return for ending the embargo. -- Chris Christie

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