Sanctions Quotes · Page 10

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

— Sergei Lavrov

I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.

— George W. Bush

[Rex] Tillerson is there to get these sanctions [against Russia] lifted. I believe it. Just watch him!

— Maxine Waters

Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies. Jenks (Black Magic Sanction)

— Kim Harrison

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

I would have doubled up and tripled up the sanctions [on Iran] and made a good deal.

— Donald Trump

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying…

— Caspar Weinberger

I don't want to say that sanctions are ridiculous and that we couldn't care less; these are not pleasant things... We find…

— Sergei Lavrov

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic -…

— Jared Harris

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for…

— Anonymous

We need to get good processes in place, we need to use them, and then we need to impose good sanctions that…

— Michele Landis Dauber

The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we…

— Elliott Abrams

Does John Kerry have to give them [Iran] every little thing? You'll pass some sanctions for human rights and missiles, and I'll…

— Hillary Clinton

I did put together the coalition to impose sanctions. I actually started the negotiations that led to the nuclear agreement, sending some…

— Hillary Clinton

The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy…

— William Hague

Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to…

— Frederick Douglass

Of other countries, to impose economic sanctions, it'd really begin to dry up the enormous amount of money coming into North Korea,…

— Richard Lugar

We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a…

— William J. Clinton

I really am tired of all the Clinton Democrats running around getting all-sanctimonious over Iraq. It was them who killed 1.5 to…

— Scott Ritter

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political…

— Carl Menger

While sanctions against Iran and Syria are intended to constrain those countries' governments, they have had the unfortunate side effect of constraining…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

I'd just like to say "thank you" to President Bush and to the men and women of the US military, who by…

— Charles Foster Johnson

I think Hillary Clinton is more suspicious, clearly tougher on Russian policy in Ukraine, Georgia, Syria; more willing to support sanctions; not…

— Richard N. Haass

The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic…

— Vladimir Putin

Love, and love as deeply as possible. And if love itself becomes the marriage, that is another thing, altogether different. If love…

— Rajneesh

If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified…

— Charles A. Beard

Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is…

— Lionel Trilling

I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial…

— George Washington

America's sanctions policy remains intact, and it will remain intact until it changes, if it does, and I'm not sure it will.

— Daniel Fried

The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough…

— Allyson Schwartz

One of the problems with the Security Council is that there are vetoes, and they do not allow us to do what…

— Antonio Guterres

On April 27th 2017 the UK approved Magnitsky Sanctions as part of the Criminal Finances Bill. The provision gives the British government…

— Bill Browder

The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the…

— Hassan Rouhani

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.

— Judith Butler

“We're not afraid of sanctions. We're not afraid of military invasion. What frightens us is the invasion of western immorality.”

— Ruhollah Khomeini

It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties…

— Earl Warren

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable...…

— Anonymous