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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results. -- Omar Bongo
Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children. -- Brian May
We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans. -- Robert Mugabe
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked -- Ralph Nader
The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice. -- Omar Bongo
Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word. -- Caspar Weinberger
I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war. -- George Galloway
Sanctions are a bad idea. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Evil requires the sanction of the victim. -- Ayn Rand
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. -- George Santayana
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. -- Walter Benjamin
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. -- George Santayana
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. -- Andrea Dworkin
We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful. -- Robert Pozen
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. -- Anita Brookner
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. -- Benjamin Franklin
The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government. -- Allyson Schwartz
One of President Obama's winning points last night was about how sanctions against Iran are crippling their economy. And believe me, if anyone knows how to cripple an economy, it's President Obama. -- Jay Leno
I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one. -- George Galloway
Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest. -- Thomas Friedman
Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences. -- Madeleine Albright
We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully. -- Blanche Lincoln
Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Sanctions against such country as Russia are unlikely to be effective. -- Vladimir Putin
Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that. -- Scott Ritter
Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies. -- Sergei Lavrov
Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table. -- Barack Obama
Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade. -- Ron Paul
Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use. -- Roger Scruton
Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success. -- Norman Finkelstein
The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Russia will honour its international commitments. Our country is a reliable borrower, a reliable creditor and a reliable supplier. Sanctions come and go, but business ties, economic interests and the reputation of a state remain -- Dmitry Medvedev
The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that "some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of life. It is clear that Iran is cynically manipulating gullible (or equally cynical) Europeans to advance its development of weapons of mass destruction. -- John Bolton
Sanctions have nothing to do with this [relations with the People's Republic of China]. The decline in our mutual trade has objective causes, which are the energy prices and the exchange rate difference. But the physical volumes have not decreased, quite the opposite actually. They are growing. -- Vladimir Putin
We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows. -- Sergei Lavrov
Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics. -- Elliott Abrams
I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons. -- Rand Paul
Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don't seem to care. -- Stephen Kinzer
People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. I've never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there. -- Henry Rollins
Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable. -- William Hague
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Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era of sanctions culminating in the current invasion. -- Richard Dawkins
The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly. -- Oliver North
But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished. -- Omar Bongo
When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It's time to send Iceland a message it can't ignore: trade sanctions. -- Pierce Brosnan
Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of sanctions if they are not going to be able to develop nuclear weapons anyway? -- Alan Dershowitz
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
Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would a movement calling for divestment, sanctions and boycott against that state be understood as directed against the Jewish people as a whole. -- Judith Butler
While sanctions against Iran and Syria are intended to constrain those countries' governments, they have had the unfortunate side effect of constraining activists' access to free online software and services used widely across the Middle East, including browsers, online chat applications, and online storage services. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Opponents of U.S. sanctions have made 'unilateral sanctions' their special target. They argue that sanctions observed by many nations would be much more effective. True enough. Far better for trade with an outlaw regime to be restricted by many nations than by just one. -- Elliott Abrams
We believe that unilateral sanctions violate international law, in fact. They violate free trade. They violate human growth and development, human development, and that when you actually sanction a bank of a country, the meaning of it is quite clear. You're sanctioning medicine for the people. -- Hassan Rouhani
The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions. -- William Hague
Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and - together with other criminal states - for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires. -- Noam Chomsky
Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition. -- Jacques Hadamard
Frankly, we should publicly increase them [ anti-Russian sanctions ]. -- John Kasich
Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network. -- Alexei Navalny
One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences. -- Ken Wilber
Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. -- Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. -- Morris Kline
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions. -- Barry Goldwater
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. -- Alexander Hamilton
In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden. -- Tom Allen
These are serious matters, and we can never let up on these sanctions [against Russia]. -- John Kasich
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. -- Jean Cocteau
Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient. -- Jan C. Ting
I believe it is wrong to give Moscow a rebate on Ukraine sanctions because of Syria. -- Martin Schulz
We will never regain control of our borders until we have an effective employer sanctions program, -- Romano L. Mazzoli
China always urges that no use or threat of sanctions should be allowed in international relations. -- Li Zhaoxing
I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance. -- Rand Paul
I would have doubled up and tripled up the sanctions [on Iran] and made a good deal. -- Donald Trump
The Iranian people are getting restive because of the challenges that sanctions have posed to their economy. -- Barack Obama
If the nuclear program is indeed meant only for civil purposes, then it is wrong to impose sanctions. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities. -- Ruhollah Khomeini
I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another. -- Judith Butler
Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case. -- Helen Clark
Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table. -- Dennis Ross
Kenya is risking sanctions from international competition because international organisations think we are not addressing the problem in line with world best practice. -- Kipchoge Keino
The Chinese are like a tank through a corn field, they just keep mowing through it. Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks. -- Stewart Baker
Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws. -- Benjamin Carson
I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments. -- Roger Mahony
My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions. -- Mamnoon Hussain
The West's sanctions are not aimed at helping Ukraine, but at geo-politically pushing Russia back. They are foolish and are merely harming both sides. -- Vladimir Putin
The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed. -- Hassan Rouhani
One of the world's great religions ? which has more than 1.4 billion adherents ? somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine. -- Steven Emerson
After analyzing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest to the USA to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline, -- Dmitry Rogozin
However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions. -- Ed Koch
The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months. -- Harold Wilson
The sanctions may be imposed only by the decision of the UN Security Council. A unilateral imposition of sanctions is a violation of international law. -- Vladimir Putin
Does John Kerry have to give them [Iran] every little thing? You'll pass some sanctions for human rights and missiles, and I'll grudgingly sign on. -- Hillary Clinton
Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity. -- Mike Pence
We repeal sanctions, it tells Russia, go ahead and interfere in our elections and do bad things; it tells China, it tells Iran. That would be terrible. -- Charles Schumer
Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam! -- Christopher Hitchens
People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. Ive never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Now that Iran's actions have been verified, it can begin to receive relief from certain nuclear sanctions and gain access to its own money that had been frozen. -- Barack Obama
I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict. -- Hassan Blasim
Any belief system that is based on fear, encourages weakness, sanctions intolerance threatens vengeance, promotes passivity and requires you to relinquish your personal power is doing you a disservice. -- Walt F. J. Goodridge
Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both good politics and good policy. -- Elliott Abrams
The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history. -- Noam Chomsky
We understand that the Iranian position is very bad because of the well-known sanctions against that country, and it would be unfair to leave it on this sanction level. -- Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin wants practical things, like the end of economic sanctions, but he also wants far greater sway in Europe and in the overall ideological trends of the world. -- David Remnick
Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival. -- Elizabeth Cox
One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women's choices concerning childbirth. -- Adrienne Rich
I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations, -- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
[Donald] Trump`s incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, spoke on the phone with Russia`s ambassador the same day President Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and imposed new sanctions on Russia. -- Donald Trump
After a generation of misrule under Mr. Hussein, who built a huge military infrastructure while neglecting civilian investment, and a dozen years of United Nations sanctions, Iraq's unemployment rate tops 50 percent. -- Alex Berenson
US intelligence agencies will only use such data to meet specific security requirements: counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, force protection for our troops and allies, and combating transnational crime, including sanctions evasion. -- Barack Obama
I'm worried about the world because there's chaos in the Middle East, and I think the Iranian deal [to lift sanctions] is going to continue the Shia-Sunni battles, the Persian-Arab battles. -- Michael Bloomberg
If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature. -- Charles B. Rangel
I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again. -- Peter Hain
While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions of any kind would be harmful to Israel. -- Elliott Abrams
We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions violence as the final assertion of manhood, synonymous with nationhood. -- Wilma Scott Heide
Japan has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation. How are we going to further economic relations on a new and much higher basis, at a higher level under the sanctions regime? -- Vladimir Putin
We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas. -- Robert Mugabe
Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price oil. And number three, Lindsay Lohan has quit drinking vodka. -- David Letterman
The International Atomic Energy Agency is controlling this, the sanctions against Iran are lifted - but still the US are working on their missile defense system. What is the point of this? -- Vladimir Putin

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