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Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Unilateral disarmament by Britain is opposed to our country's best interests, could begin the unravelling of NATO and therefore jeopardise the stability of Europe. -- James Callaghan
Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality. -- Anthony Daniels
The United States should.... avoid unilateral export controls and controls on technology widely available in world markets. Unilateral controls penalize U.S. exporters without advancing U.S. national security or foreign policy interests. -- William J. Clinton
Peace cannot be unilateral. -- Hassan Nasrallah
Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system. -- Judd Gregg
Washington has openly declared its right to unilateral use of force anywhere to uphold its own interests. -- Sergei Lavrov
We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once. -- Peter Akinola
Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security. -- Theodore C. Sorensen
Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place. -- Noam Chomsky
It would be a tragedy if the remarkable international coalition against terrorism, successfully marshalled in the aftermath of 11 September, were to fragment over a unilateral U.S. strike against Baghdad. -- Charles Kennedy
It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus. -- Ali Babacan
Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law. -- Sergei Lavrov
Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map. -- Silvan Shalom
The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.' -- Ted Cruz
Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare. -- Michael Ignatieff
Since January 2003, at the height of the debate on the possible unilateral strike against Iraq, I have advocated for a reinstatement of the military draft to ensure a more equitable representation of people making sacrifices in wars in which the United States is engaged. -- Charles B. Rangel
The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N. -- Charles Krauthammer
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
Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory. -- Mahmoud Abbas
If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice. -- Karen DeCrow
We're saying this to both countries: We want a two-state solution. We want a Jewish state of Israel and alongside a independent Palestinian state. Unilateral measures are not helping at all to bring about this cause, and we agree that we wish to cooperate very closely on this, because as we both say, time is of the essence. -- Angela Merkel
It's not unilateral when it's 16 to 3! Can't you count? -- Brit Hume
Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it. -- Pat Summitt
If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition. -- Jean Piaget
If we're being unilateral, then communication does not happen, the relationship does not happen. -- Ross W. Greene
What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent. -- Paul J. Zak
What I want to know is what in the world so many Democrats are doing supporting the President's unilateral intervention in Iraq? -- Howard Dean
I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy. -- Janeane Garofalo
When people are rushed, they're stressed and you greatly increase the likelihood of being punitive and unilateral just because you're trying to grasp control. -- Ross W. Greene
Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security." -- Theodore C. Sorensen
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
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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking! -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I hate to think that someday Americans will be looking at the ruins of their cities and saying that this happened because their leaders were afraid of the word unilateral. -- Thomas Sowell
[Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is an adherent of realpolitik. He knows that international relations are not built on the strength of unilateral demands, but on solutions that are in everybody's best interest. -- Martin Schulz
The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem. -- Ehud Olmert

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